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"I think," said Barnabas, putting away his watch, "yes, I think I shall." "The house is called Ashleydown," continued Barrymaine feverishly, "a b-big house about a m-mile this side the village." "Ashleydown? I think I've heard mention of it before. But now, you must come with me, Smivvle is downstairs, you shall have my rooms to-night." "Thanks, Beverley, but do you m-mind giving me your arm?
"Well," he began again, "you s-see, we were all going to B-Big D- Duck for a month, an' F-Father said oh! our name is K-K-Kidd, you know, the K-Kidd kids, th-there! everybody has to spring that old chestnut about us, because they think it's f-funny. It's so old it's m-m-mouldy, but we might as well s-say it and g-g-get it over with!
W- With F-Father at B-Big D-Duck, p-p-p-probably, n-n-n-gnashing his t-t-teeth, w-we have only g-got the ch-choice b-between being s-s- strung up for pup-pup-pirates at L-L-Lanesport or j-j-jugged f-for b-b-b-burglars at B-B-Bailey's Harbor." "But you haven't told us yet what you had done," Spike remarked, "did YOU break into Littlefield's house?"
"You are so b-big," she said; "and you've got so m-many feet!" "The more of me to love ye." "I wonder if you d-do?" She put her chin on her palms, looking at him sidewise. "Don't ye do that again!" he cried. "Haven't I passed ye the warning never to look at me when you fix your mouth like that?" She tried to call him a goose, though she knew that g's were fatal.
I didn't quite catch it." "No! It sort er st-stuck on the way; 'h-help me' is pretty hard to say sometimes. I t-t-tell you, b-boys, there was millions of 'em, an-and I guess I shot a barrel full. When I saw that b-big flight coming, I wished you were here, and then I was g-glad you were not. For I w-wanted to see h-how many I should get.
They came just like a b-big cloud, and began to light on that p-pole, and the air was just f-full of them. You c-couldn't see anything but pigeons. I blazed away, and the ground was c-covered with them. "I was t-tickled enough to see you fellows jump in and help me. I w-wonder how many there are. Let's count them." We gathered them up, and there were fifty-two. "Hurrah!
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