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Bobbsey, Bert and Nan were already there, and quite glad to see the two runaways, you may be sure. "What a lot of adventures you must have had!" cried Nan, when Flossie and Freddie had told her a few of the things that had happened. "We did!" laughed Freddie. "You ought to have seen that monkey's face when he bit on those make-believe cherries on Flossie's hat!" and Freddie laughed loudly.
"Then we'll shoot you!" shouted Flop. "Shoot him, Curly!" Then those two brave pig boys shot their make-believe guns at the fox. "Bang! Bang! Bung! Bung!" But do you s'pose he stopped for that? Not a bit of it! On he ran, faster than ever, carrying away Pinky, and Curly and Flop ran after him, but what could they do?
The burden is willing; it depends upon you gaily, as a friend may do without making any depressing show of helplessness; neither, on the other hand, is it apt to set you at naught or charge you with a make-believe. It accompanies, it almost anticipates; it lags when you are brisk, just so much as to give your briskness good reason, and to justify you if you should take to still more nimble heels.
If scolding or preaching could make a child merely stop telling such stories, there would be no gain; if they stopped a child thinking such stories, there would be a decided loss. Gradually the child may come to recognize the difference between the make-believe and the reality, and he may be helped.
"With the conclusion of the war in South Africa arises the question," &c., &c. It reminds one of a child's game of make-believe. There is the same pompous air of reality. "This is the shop and you are the shopwoman. Good morning, Mrs. Snooks, I have come to buy a pound of sugar." Unfortunately the facts remain.
I'm sure it's one of the animals from the boys' circus! Do look and see what it is!" "Oh, it can't be anything," said Mr. Brown. "All the animals are shut up in the tent. Besides, they are only make-believe animals, anyhow." "Well, I'm sure something is under my bed!" said Mrs. Brown. "I heard it move. Please look!" Mr. Brown looked. Sue and Bunny wondered what it was their papa would find.
He, in fact, pretends to be the expectant mother; a large stone attached to his stomach by a cloth wrapt round his body represents the child in the womb, and, following the directions shouted to him by his colleague on the real scene of operations, he moves this make-believe baby about on his body in exact imitation of the movements of the real baby till the infant is born.
"A woman so selfish," she faltered ahead, "that she preferred a make-believe husband to a real husband, because because so she thought she would be left free." "Free for what?" he demanded. "To live." "When love and marriage and children are all there is to life?" he asked. She caught her breath. "You see, she did not know that then.
"Don't you see, Wake, whose father is a pettifogging lawyer, is going to get up a make-believe law court I heard him talk about it last term instead of the regular debating evening. The best of it is, we kids shall all be in it, instead of getting stuck on the back bench to clap, as we generally are." "He's no business to tell us to fail not at our peril," growled Dig. "What will they do?"
It is civilization which is after all a sort of make-believe that causes us white folk to refer to a spade as an agricultural implement." But Ruth would not laugh. She had become so much interested in Wonota by this time that she wished her to improve her opportunities and learn the ways the better ways, at least of white people. Mr.
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