United States or Saudi Arabia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Mother and child were both so glad in each other that they forgot the fine gentleman standing by. Suddenly the boy looked towards his father, and she repented a little of her cruelty. "Jackie," she said, "do you know who this gentleman is who has come to see you?" "No, I don't." She did not care that Jackie should love his father, and yet she could not help feeling sorry for William.
Supposing later on Jackie were to reproach you?" "Jackie'd never do that, miss; he'd know I acted for the best." "If you again found yourself out of a situation, and saw Jackie crying for his dinner, you'd reproach yourself." "I don't think I should, miss." "I know you are very obstinate, Esther. When does Parsons return?" "In about a week, miss."
The clock struck five and Jackie peeped through the doors, dived under the counter, and ran into his mother's arms. "Well, did you get full marks to-day?" "Yes, mummie, I got full marks." "That's a good boy and you want your tea?" "Yes, mummie; I'm that hungry I could hardly walk home." "Hardly walk home! What, as bad as that?" "Yes, mummie. There's a new shop open in Oxford Street.
"When will you buy me the boat, mummie to-morrow?" "As soon as I can, Jackie." This promise appeared to satisfy him. Suddenly he looked "Is father coming back no more?" "Do you want him back?" Jackie hesitated; his mother pressed him for an answer. "Not if you don't, mummie." "But if he was to give you another boat, one with four sails?" "They don't have four sails, not them with one mast."
That is, they fell down a hole, but they weren't hurt at all, I'm glad to say. Then, when Alice was safe in the duckpen, the puppy dogs ran back home and went right to sleep. Now, if you don't spill the salt in the sugar bowl, I'm going to tell you to-morrow night about Jimmie and Jackie.
"Maybe this will do," and he picked all the kernels off except two for the eyes, one for the nose, two more for the ears and a row for the teeth. And he ran to Peggs to have her sew some clothes for his soldier. "What do you think of Little Miss Sweetclover?" says Peggs, holding it up for Jackie to see. "I think she's very pretty," says Jackie, "only she needs legs."
She was submissive at home and obedient to Fraulein at the White House, never even smiling at her funniest English words; she was ready to give up her own will and pleasure to the other children; and more than once Jackie had discovered her in tears she was "proud Mary" no longer. As the days went on it became almost impossible to be so unhappy without telling someone.
"Let's dazzle the town, Cora," said Jackie Blake; and before Tinkletown could take its second gasp for breath, the leading man and woman were slowly promenading the chief and only thoroughfare. "By ginger! she's a purty one, ain't she?" murmured Ed Higgins, sole clerk at Lamson's. He stood in the doorway until she was out of sight and remained there for nearly an hour awaiting her return.
Through the town they went and everywhere children ran after them, and wondered at the strange puppets. And after a while they came to a little theatre and were thrown down among a lot of other puppets. "I don't intend to stay here," said Kernel Cob. "I'm going to run away. I've got to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather." "I don't think you'll be able to get away," said the Villain.
"Well, that's what the toy-maker will do if you don't escape him," said Jackie Tar, and his eyes would have bulged if they had been real ones instead of just painted. "Why doesn't he rip you apart?" asked Kernel Cob. "Because I'm made of wood. I haven't got any stuffings," said Jackie Tar.
Word Of The Day