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I promised Lovelace Peyton a half dozen rolls of antiseptic bandages and a paper of sticking-plaster and a June-bug, if I could find one, to let me into the living-hall to read it. I felt that if it said, "No," about the secret article I couldn't trust myself not to let him know that something was the matter. It didn't say "No!" Wait, I'll copy it, Louise!
The hole was dug out to the proper depth with the assistance of such motley tools as the ferrules of sticks and parasols, and the stones which were scattered along the beach, while the cloth was sewed to the stick by the careful Esther, who never by any chance travelled about without a needle full of cotton in her pocket, in company with such other usefuls as sticking-plaster, hair-pins, and camphor pills.
You will know him by his being dressed in blue, with very dull silver buttons, and by the top of his hat being made of sticking-plaster. You may perhaps see in some odd place an intelligent-looking man, with a curious little wooden table before him and three thimbles on it. He will want you to bet, but don't do it. He really desires to cheat you.
A constable neatly humbugged a footman, and I may here mention the incident, though it is subsequent to the episode of this chapter. One house we took in London was in Glendower Place, and when the servants arrived, my wife found that the footman's face was covered with sticking-plaster.
Fust of all he found fault with the chap 'e was playing with, and then he turned on the cook. "It's a pity you didn't see that in a dream," he ses, tryin' to sneer, on'y the sticking-plaster was too strong for 'im. "But I did see it," ses the cook, drawin' 'imself up. "Wot?" ses Ted, starting. "I dreamt it night afore last, just exactly as it 'appened," ses the cook, in a offhand way.
She soon satisfied herself and her sisters that the bite was scarcely more than a scratch; and a piece of sticking-plaster, fetched by Dora, whose ready eye and clear thoughtful head had already made her the best finder in the family, had covered the wound before Mrs. Woodbourne came up to satisfy herself as to the extent of the injury.
This resolution was carried into effect in the following manner. Phillis went a little in advance with a large bowl of bread and milk, and enticed Jupiter to the hearth. As he was very hungry, he did not perceive William entering with a very long gun in his hand, nor even Bacchus, his ancient enemy, with a piece of sticking-plaster down his nose and across his forehead.
"Oh, it's a head you have, Miss Eunice," said Eliza, who showed her Irish blood by her terror. "You get some sticking-plaster, Miss Cricket, while I sop off the blood. Oh, my pretty! my pretty! See! he's opening his eyes. Do you know 'Liza, lovey?" The heavy blue eyes opened, languidly, and the yellow head stirred a little. The motion set the blood flowing again.
In a few seconds the maids appeared, Sarah bringing the sticking-plaster, and Mary following with the scissors. "Make yourself quite easy, madam," said Dr Middleton, after he put on the plaster, "I will answer for no evil consequences." "Had I not better take him upstairs, and let him lie down a little?" replied Mrs Easy, slipping a guinea into the doctor's hand.
Fust of all he found fault with the chap 'e was playing with, and then he turned on the cook. "It's a pity you didn't see that in a dream," he ses, tryin' to sneer, on'y the sticking-plaster was too strong for 'im. "But I did see it," ses the cook, drawin' 'imself up. "Wot?" ses Ted, starting. "I dreamt it night afore last, just exactly as it 'appened," ses the cook, in a offhand way.
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