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Having put this on, I proceeded to equip myself with a false stomach, in imitation of the horrible deformity of the swollen corpse. This was soon effected by means of stuffing with some bedclothes. I then gave the same appearance to my hands by drawing on a pair of white woollen mittens, and filling them in with any kind of rags that offered themselves.
This objection was immediately removed, by her mother's pulling from her pocket a pair of mittens, which had once been brown, and once been whole, but which were now rent in sundry places; and which, having been long stretched by one who was twice the size of Phoebe, now hung in huge wrinkles upon her well-turned arms.
Her gown of dark woollen stuff, her black cape, black mittens, and black cap with yellow ribbons, gave her the appearance of a respectable countrywoman going to mass in her Sunday best. "Have you been a nurse?" Valentine inquired, as she scrutinized her. "Yes, madame," replied La Couteau, "but that was ten years ago, when I was only twenty.
Sproatly, who rose as she approached him, drew aside his chair, and she handed the basket to him. "You can carry it if you like," she said. Sproatly took the basket, and followed her into another room, where he sat it down. "Well?" he said, with a twinkle in his eyes. Mrs. Hastings regarded him thoughtfully. "I wonder if you know what Gregory did with those mittens?"
"You bedder haf some glothes, eh?" and he kindly brought forth some very large leather breeches, which the Dodo, after some hesitation, consented to put on. Next the Walrus took down a rough, hairy coat, with mittens attached to the sleeves. "Gom, put your arms in dis," he said, "and trow avay dose gloves you got on." "What!" cried the Dodo, "take off my gloves? Never!"
Wully recognized the traces of his master, and despairing of any nearer approach to his lost idol, he abandoned his post at the ferry and plainly announced his intention of sticking to the owner of the mittens, and Dorley was well pleased to take Wully along to his home among the hills of Derbyshire, where he became once more a sheep-dog in charge of a flock.
Latterly their services were of a more pacific nature. The women spun mittens for the lady, and knitted boot-hose for the Laird, which were annually presented at Christmas with great form. The aged sibyls blessed the bridal bed of the Laird when he married, and the cradle of the heir when born.
"And you're Sampson's errand boy just now? My goodness," as the boy spread his blue hands over the fire, "where are your mittens, child? You're never out without mittens a day like this!" "I lent them to William John he hadn't any," faltered Bertie. He did not know but that the lady might consider it a grave crime to be mittenless. "No mittens!" exclaimed Amy in dismay. "Why, I have three pairs.
On her thin wrists and long hands there was always a pair of bright red mittens, only her finger-tips showing. Her far-sunken and toothless mouth was always working, with a sucking motion of the lips; and her round little knob of a sticking-out chin munched up and down when she spoke, a long, stiff whitish hair slanting out its middle.
He looks as though he might have a fever." "Yes; that's what I've been thinking, too," nodded Mrs. Adams. "Hurry on, Charley. And if the doctor isn't there leave word for him to come as soon as he can." Out into the cold again, and into the darkness as well, bolted Charley, donning cap and scarf and mittens as he went. The adventure was growing more exciting.
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