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One moment they saw him pressing his handkerchief to Green's bleeding nose; the next he was forcing a way for plucky Simmons to reach his friends: now he must needs shut Toppin up in the book-room for safety against his will, of course; then he was heard imparting to the tearful Frere a few hints on self-defence. Very soon there was no doubt in which direction the tide of victory was flowing.
Jack Brady and the March Hare were walking with Toppin, and if it had been practicable, the Hare would have accompanied him in the race, but if there was one thing of which the March Hare was incapable, it was running. Jack, who had found this out, checked him from making the attempt. "Let Toppin go, Harey, and you stay with me," he said. There was a look of satisfaction on his face.
One or two youngsters, who had not got machines of their own yet, had begged leave to hire for the afternoon, so it happened that the March Hare and Toppin were the only boarders left behind. Mournfully they swung upon the gate, and watched the pack ride gaily away at the word "Time!" from Mr. Anderson. "I wish that they should have tooken us, eh, Top-peen?" said the March Hare.
"Yes, I did. Because you bovvered me to, and and you'd jumped in after me!" "And shallent you not ever keess me once time more?" "Oh well look here! Perhaps when it's your birthday, if we get somewhere quite secret, where nobody can possibly see us, I I'll let you have one a quick one!" "T-thanks you!" said the grateful Hare. "It's 'thanks', or else 'thank you'," corrected Toppin.
"Mayn't I have a little bit?" The sleepy voice came from Toppin's bed. "Certainly not," replied his elder brother promptly. "Chicken at night is bad for little boys high chicken especially. Tuck your head in, and don't let me hear you speak again, or I'll come to you with a slipper." Toppin was kept in very strict order by his brother, and the boys, who were used to his methods, made no remark.
The elder kept ducking the little fellow's head into the water, upon which the one who was washing himself sobbed, and spat, and cried out in great glee, "Do it again, Jack!" The mother, seeing us laugh at the lads, said, "That big un's been powin' tother, an' th' little monkey's gone an' cut every smite o' th' lad's toppin' off. "" Well," said the elder lad, "Aw did it so as nobody can lug him.
"You ought to say 'took', not 'tooken'," corrected Toppin. He felt rather cross, and disinclined to dwell on the subject of his wrongs. "Ah, I am what is your one word? non-grammar-eesh?" "No, stupid," said Toppin. "Uhéi!" This sorrowfully. Then, drawing nearer, "But no mind! I love you oh, yes, I love you a great well, Top-peen! Shall we shall we keess?"
It's gone for ever," was the rejoinder. "You'll never have it again." "Well, what was it, then? Nothing valuable, I hope?" "When two things are made into one thing, you can't speak of them any longer as 'both'; can you?" "Fetch us a grammar, Toppin," said Jack. "We're getting out of our depths. Have I lost two things, please, Cadbury, or only one?" "Don't frivol, Jack! listen to me.
Relative to its geographic distribution, Pyle states that da Silva Lima and Seixas of Bahia have reported numerous cases in Brazil, as have Figueredo, Pereira, Pirovano, Alpin, and Guimares. Toppin reports it in Pernambuco. Mr. Milton reports a case from Cairo, and Dr. Creswell at Suez, both in slaves. E. A. G. Doyle reports several cases at the Fernando Hospital, Trinidad.
In such a hurry was he when the happy hour arrived, that he forgot to wait for Mr. West's departure, and was half-way upstairs when he was called back with a rebuke for his breach of manners. In the room over which Escombe Trevelyan was head slept also Cadbury, Vickers, Jack Brady, and Toppin, the last-named being despatched to bed an hour before the rest.
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