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Back toward the barn he turned at last. As he climbed over the fence he looked at Twinkleheels, who stood on a knoll and regarded him pleasantly. "I'll get you yet!" Johnnie called to him. "You needn't think you can beat me!" Twinkleheels dropped his head, flung his hind feet into the air twice, and galloped off. He was sorry that Johnnie Green had stopped chasing him.

'He asked if we were in the fire; and you know Johnnie can't bear to hear of that; so I told him how funny it was when you came and pulled me out of bed, and we went down the garden with no shoes. And he asked whether that was the way you had grown so ugly, Aunt Theodora.

Peering round through the smoke, Johnnie saw that. "Oh!" he whispered. "Oh!" He went forward a few steps, weakly; then all his strength seemed suddenly to go out of him, and he dropped to his knees beside a wall, brushing it with his hands as he went down. There he stayed, his forehead pressed against his knuckles. Once more Cis began to weep, in pity for his suffering.

The door opened for the mother, who disappeared inside the house, with one last command to the child: "Now be a good boy, Johnnie. I'll be back in half a minute." Hardly was she out of sight when Johnnie started through the snowdrift toward the middle of the street. With difficulty he lifted his little legs out of the deep snow; now and then he stumbled and fell into the soft mass.

"It doesn't satisfy me," said John. "When three fellows run away from you and leave you high and dry in a city like Poughkeepsie why all I can say is that " "That's enough to say, Johnnie. That will do," interrupted George, waving his right hand at his friend. "You are simply mistaken," said John, the grin appearing on his face once more.

In our great joy we had almost forgotten to recognize one of Lady Rosamond's warmest adherents one always in attendance upon her ladyship, ready to engage in any fun, frolic, or excursion, in the direction of fields or woods no less a personage than John Douglas; no longer important Johnnie, but a well-bred gentleman, hearty, jovial, merry, with bravery stamped upon every lineament of his face.

"No, we can't come," said little Hugh, when a few days after this Emily and Dorothea drove over and invited the children to spend the day, "we couldn't come on any account, because something very grand is going to happen." "Did you know," asked Anastasia, "that Johnnie had got into the shell?"

"You can give it to some little girl, Johnnie," she said; " some real poor little girl." "All right." Cis came to him. "Mrs. "And I'll drop in often," interposed Father Pat; " please God!" One-Eye divined what was going forward. He got up uneasily. "Dang it, if I ain't sorry I'm goin' West so soon again!" he fretted. "But I'll tote y' back with me some day, sonny see if I don't!

She spoke at intervals, looking toward the grove they had just left, and when the bird paused Webb replied: "That is the wood-thrush's own cousin, and a distinguished member of the thrush family, the brown-thrasher. Well, Johnnie," he added, to the little girl who had come to meet them, "you are honored to-day.

Why, she called him the most beautifullest baby she ever seen! 'And that we never told you, my Johnnie, said Violet, smiling. 'Are you sure she was not laughing at you, baby? 'No, no, ma'am, said Sarah, affronted; 'it was earnest enough. She was nigh ready to eat him up, and talked to him, and he look up quite 'cute, as if he knew what it all meant, and was quite good with her.