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"Ma was cross at me for pestering her, but I managed to get some sandwiches and doughnuts. Come on, let's begin. Gee, there's a squaw!" Coming toward the three children seated in the sand by the perambulator was a thin bent old woman, leaning on a stick. "Dirty old beggar," said Kent, beginning to devour his sandwiches. "Isn't she awful!" exclaimed Lydia.
Louis he was certainly almost inconsolable. He begged constantly, in his peculiar, abbreviated language, for the beach and the ocean, with especial earnestness whenever he was taken for a promenade in his perambulator. But in time, of course, the grand impression faded from his memory, to the secret delight of Ellen, who had never become quite reconciled to his adoration of the sea.
She was betrothed to the son of a noble, and very distant, house after an afternoon when the perambulator, ill-trained to cross-country work, balked at the first stone wall on the way to the old ladies' house. It was then dragged backward for a judicious distance and faced at the obstacle at a mad gallop. Umbrella down, handle up, wheels madly whirring, it was forced to the jump.
Oswald was so overcome that he sat down suddenly, just like Betsy Trotwood did in David Copperfield, which just shows what a true author Dickens is. 'You've done it this time, he said. 'I suppose you know you're a baby-stealer? 'I'm not, Dora said. 'I've adopted him. 'Then it was you, Dicky said, 'who scuttled the perambulator in the wood?
The servant at the upper window let her work go and waved; the mother of the family and the girls in the sitting-room downstairs came to the window and waved; the woman washing in the tub in the back-yard straightened herself up and waved; the little grocer out with his wife and the perambulator waved, and the wife waved, and the infant in the perambulator waved; the boys playing pitch-and-toss on the pavement ran towards the railway bridge and waved; the young lady out for a walk with her young man waved not at all a suppressed welcome, quite the reverse of half-hearted; the young man waved, much more demurely, but still he did wave.
"Well," said he, "I had no bad intentions. I was going to say you'd have seen ten thousand people and five hundred babies at Denver. And our manna-feds won out to beat the band. Three first medals, and all exclusively manna-fed. We took the costume prize also. Of course here in Sharon I've simplified. No special medal for weight, beauty, costume, or decorated perambulator.
"Of course if the young gentleman in the perambulator is going with you, Miss the Tortoise is a giddy kind of a boat, your honour, and without you'd be used to her or the like of her but sure if you're satisfied but what it is, the master gave orders that Miss Priscilla wasn't to go out in the Tortoise without either himself or me would be along with her."
Lydia looked from the cherub in the perambulator, crowing ecstatically over the red bubble that tugged at her wrist, to the defiant Margery. "I'll let her have it, Margery," she said reluctantly. "I'll make you a doll's high chair." "All right," said Margery, nonchalantly. "Face tag! So long!" Lydia ran the perambulator along the board walk.
Even in these days of improvement, the kangaroo's pouch has no separate compartment for silver. Of course it is mainly used to carry the family in, but in any really intelligent and enterprising class of animals that pouch would long ago have improved and developed, through the countless ages, into a convenient perambulator, with rubber tires and a leather hood.
When he is old enough to walk, and is able properly to support the weight of his own neck and back, then there will be no objection, provided it be not in a crowded thoroughfare, to his riding occasionally in a perambulator; but when he is older still, and can sit either a donkey or a pony, such exercise will be far more beneficial, and will afford him much greater pleasure.
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