I bet you don't play Hookey again in a hurry.
"Jane Lends A Hand"
Shirley Watkins
That his own children were sometimes a trial to their "devoted mother" and "fond father," as he described their parents, may be inferred from the facts which were the basis of such bits of confidence between Field and the readers of his "Sharps and Flats" as this: An honest old gentleman living on the North Side has two young sons, who, like too many sons of honest gentlemen, are given much to boyish worldliness, such as playing "Hookey" and manufacturing yarns to keep themselves from under the maternal slipper.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Biler was so badly treated at the grinders' school that he played Hookey, but that was not the worst feature of his education.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes