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"Are the rivers the glad of the princess?" asked Luva. "They are not her juice, for they are not red!" "They are the juice inside the juice," answered Mara. Odu put one finger to his eye, looked at it, and shook his head. "Princess will not bite now!" said Luva. "No; she will never do that again," replied Mara. " But now we must take her nearer home." "Is that a nest?" asked Sozo.
"Well now!" she cried, and a minute after was holding a second fruit to a mouth greedy of other fare. But this time she snatched her hand quickly away, and the fruit fell to the ground. The child's name was Luva. The next day we crossed the hot stream. Again on their own ground, the Little Ones were jubilant.
Next war that comes yours truly is going to join the infantry." "Don't do it," McGee warned, as he turned away. "I've just had a little experience with the infantry and it's not such a bed of roses. See you later, Williams." "Well for the luva Pete!" Williams commented to himself, standing arms akimbo as he watched McGee cross over toward headquarters.
"We shall be ready in a minute," said Odu, and ran out, followed by all except Luva. Lilith was now awake, and listening with a sad smile. "But her rivers are running so fast!" said Luva, who stood by her side and seemed unable to take her eyes from her face. "Her robe is all I don't know what. Clumsies won't like it!" "They won't mind it," answered Mara.
"Little Tumbledown is a friend of the princess," I answered; "so is Luva: I saw them both, more than once, trying to feed her with grapes!" "Little Tumbledown is good! Luva is very good!" "That is why they are her friends." "Will the cat-woman I mean the woman that isn't the cat-woman, and has no claws to her toes give her grapes?" "She is more likely to give her scratches!" "Why?
"Mother! mother!" he cried, kneeling over her, his face close to hers. " She's so cold she can't speak," he said, looking up to us; "but I will soon make her warm!" He lay down, and pressing close to her, put his little arm over her. In an instant he too was asleep, smiling an absolute content. We came to a third Little One; it was Luva. She stood on tiptoe, leaning over the edge of a couch.
McGee clicked his teeth in a little sound of suppressed emotion, slipped through the hangar door and stood face to face with his own old Ack Emma. "For the luva Pete!" exclaimed the startled air mechanic. "When did you get here, Lieutenant?" McGee extended his hand in greeting. Williams grasped it, eagerly. "Well, for the luva Pete?" he repeated, lacking words in his surprise and pleasure.
Blinding darkness followed, but through it we heard their voices, low with delight. "Did you see?" "I saw." "What did you see?" "The beautifullest man." "I heard him speak!" "I didn't: what did he say?" Here answered the smallest and most childish of the voices that of Luva: "He said, ''Ou's all mine's, 'ickle ones: come along!"
"And they said that bird's head was busted wide open and his brains scattered all over France. Now there he is, big as life. I'll bet ten bucks to a lousy centime he lives to fall off a merry-go-round and break his neck. For the luva Pete!"
"Please, lady Mara, may we have some of your very dry bread before we go?" said Luva. Mara smiled, and brought them four loaves and a great jug of water. "We will eat as we go," they said. But they drank the water with delight. "I think," remarked one of them, "it must be elephant-juice! It makes me so strong!"
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