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"That girl would reconcile a man to anything," said father. "Not to the loss of his soul, I hope," said mother stiffly. "Souls are not so easy to lose," said father. "Besides, I am counting on Laddie saving hers." The Garden of the Lord "With what content and merriment, Their days are spent, whose minds are bent To follow the useful plow."
He took the strings off one wheel, letting Mun Bun play with that, and then tied more strings on the second wheel. He also fastened a string of bells on the wheel, and then, standing in a far corner of the attic, and pulling on the string of jingling bells, Russ could make them tinkle and ring. "This is fun!" cried Laddie, and he and his brother enjoyed themselves very much, and so did Mun Bun.
And, none listening to him could doubt he was trying to copy the human voice and human meanings. "Dear old Laddie!" praised the Mistress, running her fingers through his lion-like ruff. "GOOD Laddie! Thank you, ever so much! Nobody but a very, VERY wonderful collie named Lad could have had the perfect taste to pick out such a parasol.
"Anyhow there's always sand on a desert island, like that one where my father was." "There's sand down at Cousin Tom's," put in Laddie. "I heard my mother say so. I'm going to dig for gold, and if I get a lot, Sammie, I'll send you some." "I hope you find a big lot!" exclaimed the visiting boy with a laugh.
"Watch me, I said," laughed Laddie as he left the room. Soon Mrs. Dover, sitting beside the front window, cried: "Here he is at the gate!" He was on his horse, but he hitched it and went around the house and up the back way. Before long the stair door of the sitting-room opened, and there he stood. We stared at him.
What is the matter, laddie?" she asked in the very tenderest tone of which she was capable; for there was that in his face which warned her the trouble was one of magnitude.
"It's snowing terrible hard." "Then we can make lots of snow men!" exclaimed Laddie. "That will be heaps of fun." "You'll have to be well wrapped up when you go out," remarked Grandma Ford. "It is colder here than it is during the winter at your home, so put on your coats every time you go out." "The place for them to go now is to bed!" said Mrs. Bunker.
Laddie and I, we got more of the white stuff to help you hide it, because you would not let us see how beautiful you are." The chiffon fluttered in her hand, though there was no wind. "Why?" she asked, in a strange voice; "why did you do this?" "You gave me a garden," laughed the Piper, "when I had no garden of my own, so why should I not get the white stuff for you?
The laughter had not yet died away when a loud knocking came to the door. Ralph jumped to his feet. "I said some one was coming; and he's been here before, whoever he is." At that he walked to the door and opened it. Laddie was there before him. "Is Ralph Ray here?" It was the voice of a woman, charged with feeling. Ralph's back had been to the light, and hence his face had not been recognized.
"And tip his hat?" Laddie demanded. "Why didn't we see you?" inquired Violet. "My! what a lot of questions," laughed Grandpa Ford. "Yes, I played a little joke on you. I hid behind the snow man, which was so large I could keep out of sight. I hid there when I saw you coming toward it, and I thought it would be fun to make you think it was alive. So I made him bow with the tall hat."
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