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If they went to dance in the meadow, on moonlight nights, they always found a big bullfrog sitting in their ring, mocking them with its bellowing. So when they heard about the storks in Africa, and what hearty appetites they had, for the various wrigglers, crawlers, jumpers and splashers in the waters, they resolved to invite them, in a body, to Holland.
Blossy might be "a shaller-pate"; she might arrange the golden-white hair of her head as befitted the crowning glory of a young girl, with puffs and rolls and little curls, and more than one sister suspected with the aid of "rats"; she might gown herself elaborately in the mended finery of the long ago, the better years; she might dress her lovely big room the only double bedchamber in the house, for which she had paid a double entrance fee in all sorts of gewgaws, little ornaments, hand-painted plaques of her own producing, lace bedspreads, embroidered splashers and pillow-shams; she might even permit herself a suitor who came twice a year more punctually than the line-storms, to ask her withered little hand in marriage but her heart was in the right place, and on occasion she had proved herself a master hand at "fixin' things."
"Hey, country! Have your mud splashers shined? Only a nickel." "I'll shine your nose with my fist, if you don't let me alone," said Ralph, with so fierce a scowl that the boy edged away. The mountain lad, though but half comprehending the bootblack's meaning, was aware that he was being made game of.
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