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You're part of the Bobbsey twins, aren't you?" asked the old woodchopper, who made a living by cutting firewood and kindling wood in the forest, where he lived by himself in a lonely cabin all the year around. "Yes, we're the littlest ones," answered Flossie. "Bert and Nan are bigger, but they fell off, too." "So falling from an ice-boat doesn't go by sizes," laughed the old man.
The Littlest Rebel had put an end to questioning. An audible sigh went up from everyone except the man behind the desk. This one turned his head slowly towards the Confederate prisoner. "Captain Cary, is this true?" "Yes, General," came the straightforward answer. "I went to your nearest post with a flag of truce and asked permission to go to my dead wife. I was refused.
He straightened his back and smiled. He took from the table a rumpled paper and turned to the littlest factor in the great Rebellion. "Here, Virgie! Here's your pass to Richmond for you and your escort through the Federal lines." She came to him slowly, wondering; her tiny body quivering with suppressed excitement, her voice a whispering caress: "Do you mean for for Daddy, too?"
Rebecca Mary sang hymns mostly, but interspersed in her programme were bits of Mother Goose set to original tunes she had learned the Mother Goose of the minister's Littlest Little Boy and original bits set to familiar tunes. It was a wild little orgy of song. "My grief!" Aunt Olivia ejaculated under her breath; but she did not mean her grief.
"No," said her mother, "you must make letters." "But it is harder to make letters than it is to make a house," said Bella. "Yes," said her mother, "I think it is." "And I think," said Bella, "that the littlest scholar ought to have the easiest things to do."
"You may go, Celeste," said Ethel with a dignity not unlike her mother's manner. The maid shrugged her shoulders again, left the room and closed the door. Everything was lovely, everything was there except that personal touch which means so much even to the littlest girl. Ethel was used to being cared for by others than her parents but it came especially hard on her this morning.
Madeline, being an A, was one of the favored front row, who were near enough "to catch Prexy's littlest smiles," as Helen Adams put it, and who were the observed of all observers as they marched, two and two, down the middle aisle, just behind the faculty.
An' in watchin' him, of course, I couldn't see the three men go fer their guns. An' though I was lookin' right at Lassiter lookin' hard I couldn't see how he drawed. He was quicker 'n eyesight thet's all. But I seen the red spurtin' of his guns, en' heard his shots jest the very littlest instant before I heard the shots of the riders.
Then the obstacles come nearer and nearer together, and then the sea must understand that the land sends toward it her littlest children, in order to move it to pity.
And sometimes he would go to the corner table, where the four littlest sat, and fetch one back to perch on his knee and pull at his white, military mustache. It was the children's day.
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