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"Two of those Sullivans are Duts, and so's Mrs. Sullivan sometimes when she makes me split kindling and let the cat alone and " "That will do," I said; "that's enough of such talk. Come right into the house." "It ain't a baddix to say 'O Crackers!" he observed tentatively, as he followed us. "It may not be for some people," I answered.
"She does those things constantly," said the dejected father. "I don't see what I can do to her." I saw, however, and did it, first wiping the tooth-powder from her face. She had called me Uncle Maje. "She's a regular baddix," announced my namesake, gravely judicial.
With a look of deadly coldness I sought to chill the pride that shone in her eyes as she achieved this new enormity. "What is 'Dut'?" I asked severely. "Dut is is a Dut," she answered, somewhat abashed by my want of enthusiasm. "A Dut is a baddix a regular baddix," volunteered her brother. Following a device familiar to philologists, he submitted concrete examples.
Then, as if with intention to indicate delicately that the family afforded striking contrasts, he added, "I ain't a baddix I can nearly sing." The children fribbled about us while we talked away the afternoon. The woman child at last put me to thinking to thinking that perhaps butterflies are not meant to be happily caught.
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