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Was I right, momsie?" "My baby! It's like I can't realize it. So young!" "He took the measure of my finger, mama, with a piece of string. A diamond, he says, not too flashy, but neat." "We have 'em, and we suffer for 'em, and we lose 'em." "He's going to trade in the flivver for a chummy roadster, and " "Oh, darling, it's like I can't bear it!"
At that Miss Coblenz sat back on her tall wooden heels, mauve spats crinkling. "Well, you're a merry little future mother-in-law, momsie!" "It ain't that, baby.
I told Bunny I'd show him how the Indians roast the ears of green corn to-morrow, if you'd let me." "Oh, please, Momsie, do!" "Oh, Daddy, let him!" The first was Sue's plea, the second Bunny's, and the father and mother smiled. "Well, I think it will be all right if Tom is as careful about fire as he is on the water," said Mr. Brown.
It had been remarked of her even as a child that she liked to get unpleasant things over with as soon as possible, rather than postpone them. Once, aetat eight, she had marched in to her mother like a stoic and announced: "I've come to be whipped, momsie, 'cause I broke that horrid little Nellie Vaile's doll. I did it on purpose, 'cause I was mad at her. I'm glad I broke it, so there!"
"But did he stop you from going into the water also, Bunny?" "No, Momsie. I stopped myself by catching hold of a tree. But I almost went in. I'd have gone in after my train anyhow, if Eagle Feather hadn't got it for me." "Thank you, Eagle Feather," said Mrs. Brown. "I must give you some of the nice soup I have made. The papooses will like it."
This did not take long, and a little while afterward Bunny came running up from the brook with the two dogs, dripping wet from their baths. "Quick, Momsie and Sue!" he called to his mother and sister. "Get in the auto before the dogs shower you again with water. I've got 'em good and clean now. I made 'em go in four times after the sticks." "Did they shake any water on you?" asked Mr. Brown.
Stay right in bed." "But it's a real fire, isn't it, Daddy?" cried Freddie. "I heard the engines puffin', and I saw the red light and it woke me up and I comed in and telled Momsie; and it's a real fire, isn't it?" "Yes, Freddie, it's a real fire all right," said Mr. Bobbsey. "But don't talk so loud, nor get excited. You may awaken the people in the other rooms around us, and there is no need.
"After we have it in the circus a while we'll let it go. 'Member how we played circus, Sue?" "I guess I do! We had lots of fun, didn't we?" "We did!" From across the fields came a call: "Come to supper, children!" "We're coming, Momsie!" shouted Bunny. "And we're bringing a squirrel to supper too!" added Sue, who always liked to be counted in on everything.
"The ragged man gave us so many cookies." "I hope they weren't too rich for you," said Mrs. Brown. "Oh, no, Mother, they couldn't be!" exclaimed Bunny. "'Cause he's an awful poor, ragged man." "Oh, rich cookies means they have too much shortening butter or lard or something in 'em," said Sue. "I know, for I've taken a cooking lesson; haven't I, Momsie?"
"Momsie wanted to know how I'd torn mine and got it so mussy, too. I told her I'd been chasing up Goliath, which was really quite true, you know." "I never can think of things to say that will be the truth and yet not give the whole thing away!" sighed the downright Cynthia. "I wish I were as quick as you!" "Never mind! You've got the sense, Cynthia! I never would have thought of the dust-cloth."
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