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A cash price of a hundred and fifty thousand francs, then considerable expenses in connection with getting the place into proper order, the personal staff, the bedding, the nanny-goats for milking purposes, the manager's carriage, the omnibuses going to meet the children coming by every train. A great deal of money.
But he couldn't feel sure, for, from being well-to-do the Tosswills must have become poor, painfully and, to his mind, unnaturally poor. Further search proved the prescription was not in the play-box, and he went downstairs. Still that same unnatural silence through the house. Where could Timmy be? Somehow he felt that he wanted to see Timmy and find out about the nanny-goats.
All animals seemed to take to him, for he had pets without end. The two nanny-goats and the little hind followed him like dogs; the squirrel was always in his pocket or on his shoulder; and a jackdaw and a magpie, both of them pinioned, fluttered after him wherever he went, chattering and scolding as though the place belonged to them.
She didn't mind that, for the summer is the slack season in the jumping world. Moreover, trouble taken for helpless young things was never anything but a delight to her. And fortune favoured her. For the Queen of Sheba, one of her nanny-goats, had lost her kids, and the milk was therefore available for the foal.
Eden; glad to see you any time," they laughed down at him from the landing above. Martin grinned as he picked himself up. "Phew!" he murmured back. "The Transcontinental crowd were nanny-goats, but you fellows are a lot of prize-fighters." More laughter greeted this. "I must say, Mr. Eden," the editor of The Hornet called down, "that for a poet you can go some yourself.
Weston fanned Alice, who, with closed eyes, laid languidly on the lounge. "Miss Janet," said Lydia, speaking very softly, "who made de lightning-bugs?" "God made them," said Miss Janet. "Did God make de nanny-goats, too?" "You know that God made every thing," said Miss Janet. "I have often told you so." "He didn't make mammy's house, ma'am; I seed de men makin it."
"He once got warned himself, did old Thomas, so said he, 'Where do you intend to go master? 'Me, said the old man, scratchin' his head, and lookin' puzzled 'nowhere. 'Oh, I thought you intend to leave, said Thomas for I don't. 'Very good that, Thomas, come I like that. The old knight's got an anecdote by that, and nanny-goats aint picked up every day in the country.
Eight small boys at the word "fire" appeared on the instant from nobody knew where, and ran after her with hoarse yells of "fire! fire! Where's the engine? Vi——ir-r-!" By this time, too, three dogs and a nanny-goat were chasing her; the dogs were barking, and the nanny-goat was baaing or braying, or whatever it is that nanny-goats do, so she swept up to the house in a unique, triumphal procession.
"He once got warned himself, did old Thomas, so said he, 'Where do you intend to go master? 'Me, said the old man, scratchin' his head, and lookin' puzzled 'nowhere. 'Oh, I thought you intend to leave, said Thomas for I don't. 'Very good that, Thomas, come I like that. The old knight's got an anecdote by that, and nanny-goats aint picked up every day in the country.
What do I do then but slip down very soberly from Clavileño without telling a soul, and played and leaped about for three-quarters of an hour, with the pretty nanny-goats, who are like so many marigolds or gilly-flowers; and Clavileño stirred not one step all the while." "And while Sancho employed himself with the goats," asked the duke, "how was Don Quixote employed?"
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