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"Dimmy dot a tore toe, too." But Jimmy showed a strange reticence about offering proofs of his affliction. At the peril of his equilibrium, he clasped the allegedly injured member in his chubby hand and rolled over on the bed in apparent anguish. "Less see, Jimmy," asked his mother, anxiously. "Don’t bleeve him, mammy. He ’ain’t ever cried. He’d a cried, for sure, if his toe was sore."
"Muvvy, sing ’Dway Wolf.’" And as she paid no heed, but looked at him, white-faced and strange, he again repeated, with his most insinuating and beguiling tricks of eye and smile: "Muvvy, sing ’Dway Wolf’ for Dimmy."
The berries were picked, the way lost, tears shed, baby consolation administered, and then the little pair lay down among the brakes and died with their eyes wide open and the toes of their four little boots turned up to the daisies in the most pathetic manner. "Now the wobins tum. You be twite dead, Dimmy, and I'll peep in and see 'em," one defunct innocent was heard to say.
"I will tiss Dimmy! and I tored up my hat 'tause a pin picked me," shouted Pokey, regardless of Jamie's efforts to restrain her. Captain Dove looked rather taken aback at this outbreak in the ranks; but, being a dignified and calm personage, he quelled the rising rebellion with great tact and skill, by saying, briefly,
Just then Jamie came back, and Rose understood the smile, for his dolly proved to be a pretty four-year-old little girl, who trotted in as fast as her fat legs would carry her, and making straight for the shells, scrambled up an armful, saying, with a laugh that showed her little white teeth, "All for Dimmy and me, for Dimmy and me!"
At the age of five, little Judith, namesake of her aunt, was something of a doubting Thomas. "Let mammy see, Jimmy," and Alida bent over her son and heir. "Doth Dimmy det any apple?" The wee man sometimes succeeded in making terms with his mother, when the other children were not present.
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