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At last he said the experiment would begin; and he struck out with his left foot. As he did so the front end of that particular scow scuttled under water, and as he tried to save himself by bringing forward his right foot, that section of Bradley's Water Perambulator also dipped under, and Bradley fell.
He married a slatternly, unthrifty country girl, has been much tied to a perambulator, and has grown stooped and grey from irregular meals and broken sleep. But the worst of his difficulties are now over, and he has, as he says, come into easy water. When I was last in Sandtown I walked home with him late one moonlight night, after he had balanced his cash and shut up his store.
She was dressed in her best clothes for why leave anything of value for the Germans, should they ever come? and she wheeled her few household treasures before her in the perambulator, while her little daughter ran beside her. But next morning I saw her again coming back up the street to her cottage. This time she was alone, and she still trundled the perambulator in front of her.
When things cumbered her crib or her perambulator she brushed them into space and then repented after them. Following her marriage to Peter Cheever she did just that with Jim Dyckman. His love cluttered up her domestic serenity and she chucked it overboard. And then she wanted it again.
"Coming out from my poor friend," he said, "I ran into a baby's perambulator and that young mother, whom I remember as a little thing" he held his hand at the level of his thigh "arranging it for going out. It startled me; and I fear I asked quite foolishly: 'Is it a boy? The poor young thing looked up at me. She has very large eyes, quite beautiful, strange eyes.
At any other moment she would have bent, enraptured, over the perambulator, which was being wheeled, by a nurse and a maid, down the front steps into the street; but to-day the sight of the soft baby features, lovingly surrounded by lace and blue ribbons, was like the turn of a knife in her wound.
Well, she will be able to have fine times in your spacious, well-ordered establishment! I hope at any rate that you will be able to keep her so far within bounds that she will not venture to chaff you about "number one." Do not let her think that my taste predominates in the style and decorations of the house.... Dear friend, already I see you pushing the perambulator!
A moment later the gate opened slowly to admit a perambulator, propelled by the nurse and flanked by Juliet and Andora. Lizzie's eyes rested on the familiar group as if she hadnever seen it before, and she stood motionless, instead of flyingdown to meet the children. Suddenly there was a step on the stairs, and she heard Andora's agitated knock.
I made this nurse the following offer: If she would bring the dilatory boy to my rooms and leave him there for half an hour I would look at him. At first Mary, to whom the offer was passed on, rejected it with hauteur, but presently she wavered, and the upshot was that Irene, looking scornful and anxious, arrived one day with the perambulator.
At last a very small nurse appeared, wheeling a perambulator, while two children ran by her side. These children were dressed neatly, but with no attempt at fashion. The baby in the shabby perambulator was very beautiful.
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