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The poor blunderer mouses among the sublime creations of the Old Masters, trying to acquire the elegant proficiency in art-knowledge, which he has a groping sort of comprehension is a proper thing for a traveled man to be able to display. But what is the manner of his study? And what is the progress he achieves?
There might be some little mice." "Is mice the same as mouses?" said Fixie; and when Bee nodded, "Why don't you say mouses then?" he asked, "it's a much samer word." "But I didn't make the words," said Bee, "one has to use them the way that's counted right." But Fixie seemed rather grumbly and cross.
For there lay Rosy's necklace, as bright and pretty as ever, and there beside it lay another, just like it at the first glance, though, when it was closely examined, one could see that the patterns on the beads were different; but any way it was just as pretty. "Two," exclaimed Fixie, "two lace-beads, what is the name? Has the mouses made a new one for Bee, dear Bee?"
And once or twice that afternoon, Fixie could not help whispering to Bee, "Do you fink mamma's going to get the beads hooked out?" or, "I hope they won't hurt the mouses that lives down in the hole. Do you fink the mouses has eaten it, p'raps?"
The Lamb was pulling up the moss by fat handfuls, and Cyril was gloomily contemplating the ruins of his watch. 'He does grow, said Anthea. 'Doesn't oo, precious? 'Me grow, said the Lamb cheerfully 'me grow big boy, have guns an' mouses an' an' ... Imagination or vocabulary gave out here.
"Yes, my little man, provided you promise not to send them visits down the 'mouses' holes," said his mother, laughing. This is all I can tell you for the present about Rosy and her brothers and little Bee.
The walls and ceilings were blue; the doors and staircases were blue; everything in all the rooms was blue. Mary ran round and round. She loved the padding of her feet on the floor and the sound of her sing-song: "The pussies are blue, the beds are blue, the matches are blue and the mousetraps and all the litty mouses!"
The Lamb was pulling up the moss by fat handfuls, and Cyril was gloomily contemplating the ruins of his watch. "He does grow," said Anthea. "Doesn't 'oo, precious?" "Me grow," said the Lamb cheerfully "me grow big boy, have guns' an' mouses an' an'" Imagination or vocabulary gave out here.
I find also here my friends Joseph and Napoleon. Poor as mouses of the church, as you say, but brave boys, and we work together with much gaiety. When I asked if he had leisure to be my guide about Paris, for my time was short and I wanted to see everything; he pranced, and told me he had promised himself a holiday, and had planned many excursions the most wonderful, charming, and gay.
"I should laugh, Fly Clifford, to see you going to churches! All the ministers would come down out of the pulpits and ask what little mischief that was, and make aunt 'Ria carry you home!" "No, he wouldn't, too! I'd sit stiller'n two, free, five hundred mouses," pleaded Flyaway, climbing up the back of a chair to show how quiet she could be. "O, it's no use to talk about it, darling.