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'Coming! replied Mr. Sponge. As if to thwart him, the child then began, Mrs. Jogglebury holding up her forefinger as well in admiration as to keep silence: 'Obin and Ichard, two pretty men, Lay in bed till 'e clock struck ten; Up starts Obin, and looks at the sky And then the brat stopped. 'Very beautiful! exclaimed Mr. Sponge; 'very beautiful! One of Moore's, isn't it?
Crowdey saw how things were going, and turning from the cow question, endeavoured to re-engage him in his recitations. 'Now, my angel! exclaimed she, again showing him the sugar; 'tell us about "Obin and Ichard." 'No not "Obin and Ichard," pouted the child. 'Oh yes, my sweet, do, that's a good child; the gentleman in the pretty coat, who gives baby the nice things, wants to hear it.
The unpropitious toilet; the aggravation of 'Obin and Ichard'; the delay caused by Jog being sick with his cigar; the divergence into Hackberry Dean; and the long protracted wait at the toll-bar. Reviewing all the circumstances fairly and dispassionately, Mr. Sponge came to the determination of having nothing more to do with Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey in the hunting way.
It, however, happened that that amazing prodigy, Gustavus James, having been out on a sort of eleemosynary excursion among the neighbouring farmers and people, exhibiting as well his fine blue-feathered hat, as his astonishing proficiency in 'Bah! bah! black sheep, and 'Obin and Ichard, getting seed-cake from one, sponge cake from another, and toffy from a third, was troubled with a very bad stomach-ache during the night, of which he soon made the house sensible by his screams and his cries.
Sponge, quite tired of the detention, 'he'll tell me it when I return he'll tell me it when I return, at the same time giving the child another parting chuck under the chin. But the child was not to be put off in that way, and instead of crouching, and nestling, and hiding its face, it looked up quite boldly, and after a little hesitation went through 'Obin and Ichard, to the delight of Mrs.
Jogglebury then proceeded with: 'Ou go before CHILD. 'With bottle and bag, MAMMA. 'And I'll follow after CHILD. 'With 'ittle Jack Nag. 'Well now, that is wonderful! exclaimed Mr. Sponge, hurrying on his dog-skin gloves, and wishing both Obin and Ichard farther. 'Isn't it! exclaimed Mrs.
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