But it's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me.

He was just an old crosspatch in a natural wool tunic; I could have been wrong.

There, dearie, don't mind an old crosspatch.

Just because your father's an old crosspatch, YOU haven't lost your rights to his name and property.

Oh, yes, yes; we know that, crosspatch.

Don't you mind the old crosspatch.

Does Mrs. Bracken or that crosspatch Miss Adams or the weepin' willow, Mrs. Willoughby, know she isn't eleven?

If that old crosspatch Rebecca says 'My goodness' thirty times till four o'clock I'll fetch a tobacco worm and put it in her bonnet.

Then her mind crosspatched, and knowledge was connected to emotion.

Now here is where I come in again-QueenCrosspatch-whois telling you this story.

I'll give her something better than art, Kate Crosspatch.

She screeches horribly and Marmaduke calls her "Miss Crosspatch."

And then she said it louder, "Crosspatch!"

"And every time you do old Witchy Crosspatch makes everything seem disagreeable!"

He called different buffalo by name; and designated the calves by descriptive terms, such as "Whiteface" and "Crosspatch."

"I said crosspatch," she faltered and waited bravely for the deluge.