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West was teaching, it was impossible that the door could be unlocked, and Toppin released, without the fact becoming known to him. He looked up at sound of the key, and the sight of the small, red-haired urchin, seated disconsolately on a globe within, and swinging his short legs, evoked a question. "What has that lad been doing, Mr. Anderson? Did you lock him up?" "No, sir; it was Brady."
'Why, Aunt Sophy! exclaimed Daisy, 'I always drive the children at home; and sometimes when I'm on the box with Toppin, he gives me the reins in a straight part of the road, and Paul and Virginia pull like anything Toppin says it's all he can do to hold them.
He walked to a washhand-stand and selected a large sponge-dish. Depositing in it the greasy parcel he was carrying, he handed it gravely to Trevelyan. "Put all your bones your chicken bones in this, please!" he said. Trevelyan obeyed, and passed it to Vickers, and so the collection went the round of the room, only passing over Toppin, who was asleep, with his arm tossed above his head. Mr.
So 'cardenly, I laid into the mess of it, workin' off the bank where the trees was drownin' themselves head-down in the roosh just such weather as this an' the brook creepin' up on me all the time. 'Long toward noon, Jim comes mowchin' along with his toppin' axe over his shoulder. "Be you minded for an extra hand at your job?" he says. "Be you minded to turn to?"
"Better wait a year or two, Top," said Simmons, deliberately turning a somersault. "I'm bovvered if I do!" cried Toppin, scampering round to the diving-board. He was in a state of great excitement. "I'm going to dive, and turn head over heels, and stamp in the water, just like you." "Oh, let the nipper see what he can do!" said Armitage, laughing. He was standing on the diving-board.
You won't forget to put it in orders, will you? Cheerio." "Let's go round by the lower road, skipper," said Mackay. "We can look in at that toppin' little pub what's its name, Croix something? and besides, the surface is capital down there." "And see Marie, eh? But don't forget you've got a padre aboard." "Oh, he's all right, and if he's going to be out here, it's time he knew Marie."
"Anyhow, she'd seen a bit of a scrap at the outset of affairs, when the B.S.A. went out with the Armoured Train, and was wild with me for wantin' to deprive her of another 'glorious experience. ... And next morning she rides out with a Corporal and two troopers, both chaps beastly sensible of their responsibility, and wishin' her at Cape Town, she in toppin' spirits and as keen as mustard.
"No, sir; only it might have been. Toppin little Trevelyan, that is got into the deep end, and the March Hare you know the boy I mean, sir he thought he was drowning, and jumped in after him with his things on, and so they had to haul them both out. Toppin's as right as a trivet again, and as warm as a toast.
"What do you think of my rig?" demanded Dr. "Toppin'," said Julie critically. "But what in the world is it? Chiefly Waac, with three pukka stars and an R.A.M.C. badge. Teanie, how dare you do it?" "I dare do all that doth become a woman," she answered complacently. "And it doth, doth it not?
We were begging that she would not disturb herself, when one of the lads at the table called out, "Mother; look at eawr John. He keeps pushin' me off th' cheer!" "Eh, John," replied she; "I wish thy feyther were here! Thae'rt olez tormentin' that lad. Do let him alone, wilto or else aw'll poo that toppin' o' thine, smartly aw will! An' do see iv yo connot behave yorsels!"
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