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"It isn't me day out, Miss Midget, but I'll go to me room, an' if yez wants me, yez can send Sarah afther me, sure." "Can I help?" asked King, who wanted to be in the fun. "Yes, you can stone raisins," said Kitty, kindly. At home in Rockwell, Marjorie had always been chief directress in all their doings, but down here Kitty was more like a visitor, and the others politely deferred to her.
"Your father and I have joined their dramatic club, but it remains to be seen whether we can make a success of it." "Oh, Mother!" cried Marjorie. "Are you really going to act in a play? Oh, can we see you?" "I don't know yet, Midget. Probably it will be an entertainment only for grown-ups. We've just begun rehearsals." "Have we dramatic talent, Mother?" "Not to any astonishing degree.
As the session began, a meek little figure appeared at the Court entrance, and there was Hester! "Now, you Hester!" began Tom Craig, but Hester said: "Oh, please let me come! I will be good. I won't say a single cross word, or boss, or anything." "All right, Hester," said Midget, kindly, "come on in. If the Queen says you may we'll all say so. Do you, O Queen?"
Geary already in the kitchen. "My stars!" said her hostess, as she appeared; "how peart you look! Slept good, didn't ye?" "Fine!" said Midget; "good-morning, both of you. Can't I help you?" Mrs. Geary was transferring baked apples from a pan to an old cracked platter.
"I'll be your step-sister," said Midget, remembering Cinderella. "Not the cross kind." "No, the pleasant kind. All right, we'll be step-sisters, and will you come to see me often?" "Yes, and you must come over to my house." "I will, when mother'll let me. She hates to have me go anywhere." "Do you know," said Midget, in a spirit of contrition, "I thought you were 'stuck-up."
The goldfinch in his cage scolded the stranger for alighting too near his door. The mocking-bird turned, looked sharply at him, ruffled up his feathers, and jumped heavily to the top of the cage, turning one eye down upon his small foe with an air that said, "Who is this midget that insults me?"
Maynard, as they flew along the country roads. "This Geary person doesn't sound like a kidnapper, yet why else would Midget go with him?" "I'm only afraid it wasn't Marjorie," returned Mr. Bryant. "But we shall soon know." Marjorie had worked hard all day.
Comparison of her midget irritation with those that had put broad white streaks in my hair was amusing, but the rosy heart of a girl magnifies that which it doesn't contract. "Grandma wants me to marry. Did you see that fellow who was after pumpkins? he ought to make one of his head, the great thing!
Tommy Downey, ears rampant, a tooth missing and a face radiant with joy and absolute self-confidence, mounted the bunting and flag-draped stage and in a booming voice wholly out of proportion to his midget dimensions and in ten dashing verses assured those assembled that the man who wore the shoulder straps was a fine enough fellow to be sure, but that it was after all the man without them who had to win the day.
Haney and Joe moved toward Sid's Steak Joint, with Mike the midget marching truculently between them. Men nodded to them as they passed. Joe marshaled in his mind what he was going to tell the Chief. He had a trick for fixing the pilot gyros.
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