"Mrs. Rudd! Mrs. Rudd!" he shouted from the verandah. Mother went out.
"Wot's—wot's up with Dave?"
Mother turned pale.
"There's SOMETHING—!"
"My God!" Mother exclaimed—"WHATEVER has happened?"
Young Johnson hesitated. He was in doubt.
"Oh! What IS it?" Mother moaned.
"Well" (he drew close to her) "he's—he's MAD!"
"OH-H!"
"He IS. I seen 'im just now up in your paddick, an' he's clean off he's pannikin."