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"Well, if you'll promise, true blue. You see, I wanted some new rubbers, for mine were all full of holes, and I was tired of going round with wet feet; so I went down town this morning and tried to buy some. The clerk said they were six bits, but I didn't know how much that was, and didn't want to say so, so I told him that I didn't quite like the kind, and went off."
"Maybe he went over to Charlie Star's house, to make sure there would be enough tickets for the show. Oh, I wish he hadn't gone out!" "I can telephone to Mr. Star and ask," suggested Mr. Brown. But when he had done this, and no Bunny Brown was there, they all began to get quite excited. "I'll get on my coat and rubbers and go out with you," said Mart, as Mr. Brown began to put on his overcoat.
Come into the sitting-room while I find them for you. Take off your rubbers, child." Brother followed her into the house and there Aunt Kate swooped upon him and tickled him as she always did. Aunt Kate was a school teacher. In summer she tutored backward pupils. She was on her way to give a lesson now and in a few minutes she went away merrily into the driving rain.
Forbes seemed to know the clerk, and Jewel was finally fitted to her guardian's satisfaction, but scarcely to her own, the housekeeper having selected the species known as storm rubbers, and chose them as large as would stay on. "They're quite warm, aren't they?" said Jewel, looking down at her shiny feet and trying to speak cheerfully. "When you wear them you want to be warm," was Mrs.
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building had been debauched to play the part of publishers.
"Ham saw you didn't you, Ham?" replied the captain, appealing to his son. "Yes, I did. After I came home from Crofton's, I put on my old rubbers, and went out to the barn after the lantern. I found Buck on the hay-loft, counting a roll of bank bills," answered Ham, glibly. "How much was there?" asked the postmaster. "I asked him how much he had, but he wouldn't tell me," replied Ham.
She won't eat this and that, and doesn't want to wear rubbers, but she's handy and neat, and is used to doing for herself; her mother hasn't had time to fuss with her, of course, and that's lucky for me. She seems very well behaved, considering." Jewel had made heroic efforts while Mrs. Forbes assisted at her morning toilet, and this was her reward.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter," he recited. "Four seasons, and this is Spring. I wish it would hurry up and be Summer." "So do I," agreed Mab. "You can't have any fun now. It's too wet to go without your rubbers, too cold to go without a coat and almost too hot to wear one. I like Summer best." "And I like Fall and Winter," said Hal. "But let's do something Mab. Let's have some fun.
"Ho yis, massa, plenty ob rubbers eberywhar," said Quashy, with a nod, "more nor 'nuff ob dem. You see, massa, Chili an' Proo's a-fightin' wid each oder jus' now. What dey's fightin' about no mortial knows; an', what's more, nobody cares. I s'pose one say de oder's wrong an' de oder say de one's say not right.
"If I had only made Mary wear her rubbers," "If we had only invested in Calumet & Hecla at 25," "If we had only sent John to college," represent a fruitful source of family discomfort. The morbid rhyme is familiar to all: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest these, 'It might have been."
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