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There was Sammie and Susie Littletail, the rabbits, who have a book all to themselves; just as have Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dog boys, and Jollie and Jillie Longtail, the mice children. "And I s'pose we'll meet all your friends in the woods, won't we, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane, as they moved from the old hollow stump bungalow to the new one.
I can't afford to give you boats.... Come, don't plague me any more with your toy," she said, pushing it away, and then in a moment of convulsive passion she threw the boat across the room. It struck the opposite wall, its mast was broken, and the sails and cords made a tangled little heap. Jackie ran to his toy, he picked it up, and his face showed his grief.
They hurried away in the direction of the water, which Jackie Tar said he knew, for, said he, "A sailor can always smell the salt sea air, no matter how far away he may be." And sure enough, in a few moments they arrived at the water's edge. "Now that we are here," said Kernel Cob, "what's to be done?"
For a long time nobody spoke and pretty soon a little breeze swayed Kernel Cob over toward Sweetclover and he said: "Let's try to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let us pray to the fairies that something will come along to help us." "Good!" said Sweet clover, and they prayed and prayed and prayed.
"And I think if we race after them once more we'll certainly have them. Let's rest here a bit, and then chase those puppy dogs some more. That Jackie is a good runner." "I think Peetie is better," said the other voice. "Anyhow, they both got away from us." "Ha! This must be Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow they are talking about," said Uncle Wiggily to himself. "This sounds like trouble.
"I don't see that that matters at all," answered Mary. "You asked me what I liked best, and I like that best much." More customers and acquaintances had now crowded in, and the little shop was quite full. "I believe we've seen everything," said Jackie; "let's get up in the dog-cart and wait there for father.
The hand on the dial had dropped to nearly nothing. If the water-hole was narrow; if they missed it! But no up up they shot, and in just another moment men were swarming from the conning-tower. "Say!" exclaimed Dave, wiping his forehead. "Do you remember the obstacle-races they used to have at county fairs when you were a boy?" The jackie he spoke to grinned and nodded.
There were indeed moments when even Jackie, her most faithful supporter among the Chelwood children, rebelled against her authority, and found it poor fun for Mary always to have her own way and arrange everything.
"Let us try to find Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar before they die of the cold," said the Villain. "Very well," said Saint Bernard, for that was the name of the dog, "Come with me and we'll soon find them." So he asked them to climb upon his back and he trotted off, and pretty soon they came to a spot where Jackie Tar's head was sticking up out of the snow.
Hurry now, I think I hear the bell ringing!" "All right," answered Curly. "Come along, Flop." You see, he sometimes called his brother Flop, for short. So they kissed their little sister, Baby Pinky, good-by, and went on to school. As they hurried along, they met Jackie Bow Wow, the puppy dog boy, and Curly said: "Oh, Jackie, where is my pencil you borrowed?"
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