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"Little boysh is goosies for tryin' to make big folksh happy at all," said Toddie, beginning again to cry. "Oh, no, they're not, dear," said Mrs. Burton, taking the sorrowful child into her lap. "But they don't always understand how best to do it, so they ought to ask big folks before they begin." "Then there wouldn't be no s'prises," complained Toddie. "Say; izh we goin' to eat all this supper?"
If Bab could have kept her hat on! But she couldn't, and the moment it came off they all cried out: "Why-ee, Barbara!" and turned away to laugh. If Mrs. McQuilken had been there she would have said the child looked "as if she was possessed of the fox." "The little goosies! Let them enjoy it!" whispered Mrs. Hale to Mrs. Dunlee.
Haven't we been two goosies geese, I mean not to think of it before!" "What?" asked Clem helplessly. "Why, you might make a violet glove case," said Polly, in a burst. Then she began to dance around the arbor. "Oh, Clem, how perfectly lovely!" "I don't see," began Clem dismally, "and I don't know how to make a glove case."
Ten minutes later, as she was tying her bonnet strings, she heard him calling from the top of the stairs. "What is it, Dickie?" "I'm not a goose. Goosies has feathers. They say 'quack." "You're the kind that hasn't feathers and doesn't say quack," replied Mally from below. "No, darling, you're not a goose; you're Mally's good boy. Now, run back to bed."
"Yes, what DO you mean, Dolly?" said Dotty, anxiously; "you can't mean to insult Mr. Forbes." "You goosies!" cried Dolly, "he's fooling you. It's a joke on us." "What is? What's a joke?" "This mummy," and now Mr. Forbes had joined in Dolly's laughter. "You're a cute one!" he said. "Not one person in a dozen catches on to that. Tell 'em, my dear. Oh, you are a smart one!" Mr.
Those great big girls were always running away from her, and calling her "goosies" and "snips;" and now they meant to climb to heaven, where Charlie was, and leave her behind. "But I won't stay down here in this place; I'll go to heaven too, now, cerdily!" She sprang from the pillow and stood on one foot, like a strong-minded little robin that will not be trifled with by a worm.
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