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Oh, Primmins!" Primmins began to sob. "Don't tell fibs, nursey," said a small, shrill voice; and Master Sisty, coming out of the house as bold as brass, continued rapidly "don't scold Primmins, mamma: it was I who pushed out the flower-pot."
These cries, it must be allowed, were not very articulate, but they soon became urgent, with a demand which the little tyrant insisted upon with increasing vehemence. "Oh, my lady," cried the nurse, "it is as plain as if he said it, and he is saying of it, the pet, as pretty! He wants you to kiss Miss, he do. Ain't that it, my own? Nursey knows his little talk. Ain't that it, my darling lamb?"
I've got to make a man out of that thing. That's what I've come to camp for." He went up to Curly. "Brother," he said, "don't you think if you had a bath it would allow you to take a seat in the company of your fellow-man with less injustice to the atmosphere." "Run away, farmer," said Curly, sardonically. "Willie will send for nursey when he feels like having his tub."
"They've all got to begin babies. Nursey told me so." "Now, Turly! As if God couldn't make us big at once if He liked. And He did. There's Adam. Do you mean to say he wasn't made grown up? And so was Eve." But Turly had got away from the cradle and had opened one of the presses. "Strange-looking things in here," he said. "Hanging up, like people." "Oh, they're old dresses of course," said Terry.
Perhaps, however, her mind may have been running a little upon grievances, which made her say: "You know, Nursey, how you are always telling me I ought to be thankful for having things, and not having things, and " "I wish you'd talk sense, and not give way with your head so when I pull, Miss Ida," retorted Nurse, "having things, and not having things; I don't know what you mean."
"Ah, my deary, it is like a fairy tale, I do assure you, and you will see finer things than most children will tonight. Steady, now, and do just as I tell you, and don't say one word whatever you see," answered Nursey, quite quivering with excitement as she patted a large box in her lap, and nodded and laughed with twinkling eyes.
Nursey chuckled, but wouldn't give a hint, and went out again in the afternoon with a long list of more things to buy; while Effie wandered forlornly about the house, missing the usual merry stir that went before the Christmas dinner and the evening fun.
"I tell you Nursey will pretend we're in bed," said Turly; and Terry grasped at this idea and took a little comfort from it, remembering Nancy's many successful little plots for screening the children and saving her dear lady from anxiety and disturbance.
And into the bargain," added Nancy, with a quaver in her voice, "my spectacles broken into smash, an' I without e'er another pair to see my way about the house with!" "Your spectacles!" cried Terry, now at last stricken with remorse. "Oh, Nursey, do you really mean that your spectacles are broken?" Nurse Nancy answered by holding up an empty rim from which all trace of glasses had departed.
Overtheway made up a great deal of that herself. And please, Nursey, take off my black frock and never let me see it again, for the Captain is really coming home, and, oh! how I wish he would come!"
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