21.   And the man who had led the sandbagging charge was cheered by everyone from little old ladies to elementary-school children for saving their town.

22.   - Thelma Pogue, the sweet little old lady next door, worries about rattlesnakes.

23.   A little old lady, who turns out to be not what she seems, tells Reggie off by calling him Poop Dog.

24.   A favorite story of Joe Ford, chairman and chief executive of the Alltel Corp., involves a real yet proverbial little old lady.

25.   A little old lady sees Richard in black stockings and is shocked.

26.   A warm touch for a guy whose oilfield language has been making the little old ladies on Camp Bowie blush.

27.   A white-haired little old lady sits sipping tea and watching the Weather Channel describe a ferocious blizzard about to hit her tiny island off the Maine coast.

28.   Above all, he was a friend to little old ladies.

29.   Bringing a bag of lima beans, a little lady visits Camilla, who is now multicolored and sprouting.

30.   But by then the idiosyncrasies of a little old lady seemed to be all they had to go on.