My Dad grew up in Kansas City in the 20s, and for many decades said, "'What ho,' she cried, and waved aloft her wooden leg in fiendish glee."
Doesn't mean much more but I like the sound of it. It has style.
His favorite riddle, also, was "What's the different between a duck?"
("One of its feet is alike.") I had never run across it elsewhere before Snuffy, above.