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Longears turned the doll upside down and shook her. Things rattled inside her, but even then she did not sing. "Oh, dear!" cried Susie, her little pink nose going twinkle-inkle, just as did Uncle Wiggily's. "What can we do?" "You leave it to me, Susie," spoke the old rabbit gentleman. "I'll take the doll to the toy shop, where I bought Little Bo Peep's sheep, and have her mended."
If his goal is the summit of a high, bleak peak like Long's; or a glacier, it is imperative to start at once as the temperature above the timberline is often below freezing, even during the summer months. But if the country is not so menacing, the searchers delay, hoping the lost person, like Bo Peep's sheep, will come home unsought, as indeed he generally does.
Says he, 'Slick, where do you get your grub today? 'At General Peep's tavern, says I. 'Only fit for niggers, says he, 'why don't you come to the TREE-mont house, that's the most splendid thing, it's generally allowed, in all the world. 'Why, says I, 'that's a notch above my mark; I guess it's too plagy dear for me, I can't afford it no how. 'Well, says he, 'it's dear in one sense, but it's dog cheap in another it's a grand place for speculation.
One day I was a walkin in the Mall, and who should I meet but Major Bradford, a gentleman from Connecticut, that traded in calves and pumpkins for the Boston market. Says he, Slick, where do you get your grub to-day? At General Peep's tavern, says I; only fit for niggers, says he, why don't you come to the TREE-mont house, that's the most splendid thing its generally allowed in all the world.
"What did he want?" the doctor asked, secretly appreciative of Bo Peep's goodness of heart as he saw the street full of whirling snow. "He done said hit wah a maturity case." Bo Peep tried to speak carelessly. In truth, his conscience had not left him in peace a moment. "What do you mean? Who was it?" Horace Carey demanded. "Don't be mad, Doctah, please don't.
The hardship was Bo Peep's penance, and right merrily, after the nature of a merry-hearted race, he took his punishment. Jim Shirley, putting wood on the kitchen fire, bent low as he heard the piteous moanings from the sick room. "Oh, Lord, if you can work miracles work one now," he pleaded below his breath. "Bring help out of this storm or give us sense to do the best for her.
Do you dine at Peep's tavern every day, and then off hot foot to Treemont, and pick your teeth on the street steps there, and folks will think you dine there. I do it often, and it saves two dollars a day. Then he put his finger on his nose, and says he, 'Mum is the word.
Wait five years till he is the age his father was when he came out here. The test of victory is the second generation." Bo Peep's fiddle began its song and the still young middle-aged guests with their host and hostess kept time to its rhythm. The younger generation does not want instruction. It is perfectly willing to instruct if anyone will listen to it. The Education of Otis Yeere.
Do you dine at Peep's tavern every day, and then off hot loot to Treemont, and pick your teeth on the street steps there, and folks will think you dine there. I do it often, and it saves two dollars a day.
"Why two?" he asked kindly, for Bo Peep's face was so full of sorrow he could not help pitying the boy. "Please, kaint I go with you all? I can cook betteh'n Miss Virginia eveh could, an' I can be lots of help an' you all'll need help." "But it's a stinger of a storm, Bo Peep," the doctor insisted, anxious to be off. "Neveh mind! Neveh mind! Lemme go. I won't complain of no stom."
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