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"The legs that is, three of them are Chippendale. The back is a nondescript of something I cannot tell. Perhaps from some colonial remnant." "Vot's it vorth?" "Nothing, except to sit upon." Otto laughed a gurgling, chuckling laugh, his pudgy nose wrinkling like a rabbit's. "Ain't dot funny!" and he rubbed his fat hands. "Dot's true.
He pretended to be angry. He made Dandy hide his eyes once more. Again Dandy peeped slyly to see where Bob was hiding the corn. At last Showman Bob took little Dot's hat and tied it over Dandy's eyes. How the children did laugh! Dandy looked so funny with a little girl's hat on. Then Bob hid the ear of corn behind a box. He called, "Come, Dandy, come!" Dandy shook his head very hard.
Soon they reached the wharf on Apple Tree Island, and the four little Blossoms were put ashore, after saying good-by to Letty Blake and her cousins. She lived in Greenpier, and Captain Jenks had known her since she was Dot's age. "Let's have lunch ready by the time Daddy and Mother come back," suggested Meg. "We can do it every bit ourselves."
The other painted savages were creeping in and out of the bushes with their spears and boomerangs as if they were hunting, and the dressed-up kangaroo made believe not to see them, but stooped down, nibbling grass. "What an idea of a kangaroo!" sniffed Dot's friend, "why, a real kangaroo would have smelt or heard those Humans, and have bounded away far out of sight by now."
"Captain say to come aboard, please. He at the Consul's for papers he meet you at boat," and Allan left. "By shingo, dot's a big fellow," said Planter Oppermann. "Ay," said Robertson, the trading skipper, "and a good man with his mauleys, too. He's the champion knocker-out in Samoa, and is a match for any Englishman in Polynesia, let alone foreigners" with a sour glance at the German.
Then she dropped her voice, and came a little, nearer to Dot, and stooping down until her little black hands hung close to the ground, she whispered in Dot's ear, "They say I ought to consult the Platypus." "Could the Platypus help, do you think?" Dot asked.
If they had gone on their way it is possible that they would have slipped past the Blacks without danger. But although the Kangaroo is as timid an animal as any in the bush, it is also very curious, and Dot's Kangaroo wished to peep at the corroboree.
The branches of the fallen tree were covered with a feathered company, and in the open space between it and Dot's nook, was a constantly increasing crowd of larger birds, such as cranes, plover, duck, turkey-buzzards, black swan, and amongst them a great grave Pelican. The animals were few, and apparently came late.
"Und yer sthold dot coats fum mine vindo'," said a stout man shoving his fist under the switchman's nose. "A gentleman gave me the coat in this saloon," urged the striker. "Why, he was here a moment ago." "Ah! dot's too tin," laughed the tailor, "tak' 'im avay, Meester Bleasman, tak' 'im avay," and the miserable man was hurried away to prison.
Dot's new dresses were all finished; and Twaddles had wheedled his father into allowing him to take along an empty bird-cage which took up a great deal of room and was utterly useless. The Blossoms had no bird, and, as Bobby pointed out to Twaddles, he would not be able to catch a bird if he tried, and if he did catch one, said Bobby, it would be against the law for him to keep it.
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