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"Oh won't that be the nicest thing!" they cried in a breath. "Who can go on the pony?" "Ethelwyn may ride out, and Beth back," said mother. "I've always been so thankful to think you weren't born a no and don't mother," said Ethelwyn, hugging her. "Are we going right away?" "Right away." Sure enough there was Joe leading Ninkum, their own pony. Mother and Beth were to go in the phaeton.
She had a little difficulty in turning around to wave a farewell to dear grandmother on the porch, because the pony took this opportune time to munch the grass at the road-side, and Beth nearly went over his head. "Dear me, Ninkum, you are very rude," she said, much vexed.
At this whist-table, Barbara usually is the fourth. Rosamond gets sleepy over it, and Ruth Miss Trixie says "plays like a ninkum."
"The human capacity enlarges, my son, with every mile one retires from civilisation. When I was a Kickapoo Indian, Willy, I ate for three weeks without stopping, and I had three buffaloes at a " "Gerald, my dear!" said Mrs. Merryweather. "Yes, Mater, my dear!" said the unblushing Gerald. "I was only trying to expand his mind, like the Ninkum.
"It will do you good, I trust," said her mother. "It'll improve my thinkery, I hope," said Beth. A heartache when the heart is young, Seems quite too big to bear; But when it ends in laughter, Away goes every care. When they started to return the next day, Beth in triumph mounted Ninkum.
"'Rockabye baby on the tree top," came from the open attic window, and floated down to Joe currying Ninkum, and to 'Vada, Mandy, and Aunt Sophie in the laundry. Joe smiled at the cheerful refrain, and 'Vada, sure that they were in no mischief, mopped her dripping brow, and went on with her work.
"I've wondered if they do get out of the seed with a little cracky pop," said Ethelwyn. "What, sister?" asked Beth, coming up on Ninkum. "Flowers and things." "I've wondered how things know how to make themselves flowers, and not potatoes, or something like that," said Beth; "but I suppose God tells them."
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