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"Really I do not," said Pepperpot, "I have had so many good feeds there." "Why," continued Gelid, "Lord love you, Wagtail, not remember that calipeever, so crisp in the broiling?" "No," said Wagtail, "really I do not." "Lord, man, it had a pudding in its belly." "Oh, now I remember," said Wagtail.
Paul Gelid and Pepperpot occupied the starboard side of the little vessel; Aaron Bang and myself the larboard. By this time it was close on eight o'clock in the evening. I had merely looked in on our friends, ensconced as they were in their temporary hurricane house; for I had more work than I could accomplish on deck in repairing damages.
But, maybe, child, you'll find that what you have right here is far better than anything on the other side of the mountain. Now, suppose you lead the way to Sunnyside." Jerry sprang ahead eagerly. "And then you'll meet Sweetheart and Little-Dad and Bigboy and Pepperpot!"
Mothers are always willing to do the things that are going to be best for their girls. Mrs. Allan and I have persuaded her " But Jerry, with a "whoop," was racing down the trail, Bigboy and Pepperpot at her heels. She vaulted the little gate leading into the garden and swept like a small whirlwind upon her mother, sitting in the willow rocker on the porch.
Two small carved stone lions guarded each side of the flight of steps that led to the big front door; their stony, stoic stare drew a sharp bark of challenge from Pepperpot, snuggled in Jerry's arms. "Hush, Pepper," admonished Jerry. "You mustn't forget your manners." As John Westley opened the door of the tonneau his eyes swept the front of the house in a disappointed way.
Everyone laughed Graham and Tibby uproariously. "Goodness me a dog!" Mrs. Westley cried, with a startled glance toward John Westley. "Let him down," commanded Graham, as though he and Jerry were old friends. Jerry put Pepperpot down and the four children leaned over him. Promptly Pepperpot stood on his hind legs and executed a merry dance.
Syme's laughter at all this had about it a wild weakness of relief. He laughed at the idea of the paralytic Professor being really a young actor dressed up as if for the foot-lights. But he felt that he would have laughed as loudly if a pepperpot had fallen over. The false Professor drank and wiped his false beard. "Did you know," he asked, "that that man Gogol was one of us?"
"Like yourself, Paddy, short and sweet." Paddy brandished the spoon, weapon-wise. "Short is it, you little Canuck! So is a pepperpot short; but it holds a hell of a flavor. Leave Paddy a gun in his hand, and his short legs will keep up with your long ones, when it's the firing line that's before him." "The old sing-song, Paddy. Give us something new." "So will I, when I get my wishing.
I lay down, and soon fell fast asleep, and I remembered nothing, until I awoke about eleven o'clock next morning, and heard Mr Bang speaking to Wagtail, at whose bedside he was standing. "Pepperpot, my dear, be thankful you are quite cool a fine moisture on your skin this morning be thankful, my little man how did your blister rise?"
It had been a prearranged pact among the young Westleys not to greet the little stranger with any show of eagerness. Tibby welcomed the suggestion. "Oh let's!" she cried. It was at that moment that Pepperpot had barked his disapproval of the weather-worn lions. Graham and Gyp gave a shout of delight. "Look! Look a dog! Hurray!" "Maybe now mother will have to let us keep him," Graham added.
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