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She had always been so happy that she could not imagine that to have had a mother would have made any particular difference to her happiness. You see, she did not know. She had grown just as the bush wild flowers grow hardy, unchecked, almost untended; for, though old nurse had always been there, her nurseling had gone her own way from the time she could toddle.

Sez Josiah, "You seem to take to China ways so, you and Arvilly, that I spoze mebby you'll begin to bandage your feet when you git home, and toddle round on your big toes." And I sez, "I d'no but I'd jest as soon do that as to girt myself down with cossets, or walk round with a trailin' dress wipin' up all the filth of the streets to carry home to make my family sick." But it is a awful sight.

"Yes, towards Carlisle. They told me that if my husband were ever taken he would be brought to Carlisle. That was why I wished to get here. But I had scarce walked a mile I had a baby at the breast and a little boy who could just toddle beside me I had scarce walked a mile before the boy became ill, and could not walk.

"When you're ready to toddle about" he added, with a lightning wink and a slight movement of his fat thumb and forefinger, as if counting a stack of imaginary bills, "send Sam Singer up to let me know. Comprende, amigo?" Bob smiled at this sinful philanthropist. "Not necessary, old man if you'll drop in at the Kern County Bank and Trust Company in Bakersfield to-morrow and get me a check-book.

When he was three weeks old, he had an illness which left him totally blind. As soon as he was old enough to sit up alone and toddle about, another affliction, the nervous motion of his body, became apparent. His mother, a buxom young Negro wench who was laundress for the d'Arnaults, concluded that her blind baby was 'not right' in his head, and she was ashamed of him.

The weather was magnificent and whenever the captain of the Ferndale was seen on a brilliant afternoon coming down the road Mr Smith would seize his stick and toddle off for a solitary walk. But whether he would get tired or because it gave him some satisfaction to see "that man" go away or for some cunning reason of his own, he was always back before the hour of Anthony's departure.

"I will, if you will promise to come up soon:" and she gave him a perfect broadside of her eyes. "I'll come up after dinner, fast enough," he said, simply. "I don't care about much wine afterwards I take my whack at dinner I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea.

And try to toddle to bed without telling me of which cute character in Dickens I remind you, because I am cuter than any of them, and if I stay in this tight frock another second I can't answer for the consequences. Oui, Josephine, entrez! Good-night, dear aunt. Happy dreams!"

I call it, all the same, immense fun," Maria Gostrey declared; "and to see you work it out will be one of the sensations of my life. It IS clear you can toddle alone!" He received this tribute without elation. "I shan't be alone when the Pococks have come." Her eyebrows went up. "The Pococks are coming?"

It had only been able to toddle when brought to the tavern. The rains and thunderstorms of spring went by, the summer passed, and it could walk about.