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"I don't think it would be good for Johnnie to go down to Eden and put up with Penton," she interjected, "they're too much alike." "Ally Merton is in New York," Galusha Siddon informed me. "He's working on the Express. He wants you to run down and see him." Merton had come to New York the year before, to work on the Express. Mackworth had gotten him the job.
'Why, where do you come from? replied the man. 'I am a traveller, sir, said I, 'and a total stranger in this part of the country. I had lost my way when I saw your torches, and came by chance on this this incredible scene. Who was the man? 'A suicide, said he. 'Ay, he was a bad one, was Johnnie Green.
And since it was summer, and a good time to find them, he decided to start a collection of butterflies. News spreads fast among the field people; and almost as soon as Johnnie Green had made up his mind about his new collection, the whole Butterfly family knew of it. Old Mr. Crow was the one that first learned of Johnnie's plan. And he was not pleased, either. "Butterflies!" he scoffed.
His eyes passed swiftly from the elder to the younger girl, the one almost as young at heart and fully as innocent as the other, and then he spoke abruptly: "Good-by, Johnnie. I wish to see your father a moment on some business;" and he walked rapidly away. By the time they reached the house he had gone. Amy felt that with the night a darker shadow had fallen upon her happy day.
At last Twinkleheels stopped and waited for him, pricking up his ears at Johnnie's whistle. Now, however, he wouldn't let Johnnie get within a dozen feet of him. "This is great sport!" Twinkleheels chuckled as he dashed away again. Johnnie Green, however, did not enjoy the sport. After following Twinkleheels all over the pasture he became tired and breathless.
Perkins, as he noted the date on the paper. "But what about school?" "Oh, gee! I forgot all about Mister Maloney!" regretted Johnnie. He filled in the gap promptly, including night school, and the matter of his not having suitable clothes. "But when Mister Maloney heard how I can read," he concluded, "he seen I didn't need t' go t' school the way other kids do.
So he did not say "No" decidedly, as he at first meant, but took Johnnie on his knee, and asked, "Well, Curly, so you want to leave Papa and Katy and Clover, and go away to be Miss Inches' little girl, do you?" "I'm coming home to see you every single summer," said Johnnie. "Indeed! That will be nice for us," responded Dr. Carr cheerfully.
They received Emily with loving cordiality, and accounted for the violent exercise they had been taking by the declaration that this donkey never would go at all, unless he heard a great noise and clatter at his heels. "So that if Johnnie wanted to go far, as far as to London," observed one of the panting family, "it would be awkward, wouldn't it?"
"But somehow I don't seem to feel as if I could quite make up my mind to give my Curly Locks away. Perhaps in a year or two, when we are used to being without her, I may feel differently. Suppose, instead, we make a compromise." "Yes," said Miss Inches, eagerly. "Yes," put in Johnnie, who had not the least idea of what a compromise might be.
Oh, what a fine view Jimmie had, but he didn't dare frisk around as Billie and Johnnie did, for he was a trifle dizzy. Then, after he had been up there some time, he thought he had better go down, for the wind was blowing the treetop, and he wasn't used to it. So, after Billie and Johnnie had sung their song again, Jimmie started for the ground.
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