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As Soon as the Wooders and Waterers were come on board to Dinner 10 or 12 of the Natives came to the watering place, and took away their Canoes that lay there, but did not offer to touch any one of our Casks that had been left ashore; and in the afternoon 16 or 18 of them came boldly up to within 100 yards of our people at the watering place, and there made a stand. Mr.
I was told, that they asked our people to go home with them, on condition they stripped naked as they were. This shews that they had no design to rob them, whatever other they might have. On the 9th, I sent the launch for more ballast, and the guard and wooders to the usual place.
'Heard what? said Toad, turning rather pale. 'Go on, Ratty! Quick! Don't spare me! What haven't I heard? 'Do you mean to tell me, shouted the Rat, thumping with his little fist upon the table, 'that you've heard nothing about the Stoats and Weasels? What, the Wild Wooders? cried Toad, trembling in every limb. 'No, not a word! What have they been doing?
"How do you like this one, Papa?" "Just about the same. And who has sung about the Middle Lot?" asked the father. "The Lower Wooders and we together; they too had to have a song, but the shortest, as it ought to be. It runs so: "'And they of Middle Lot They all together plot That they are striving zealously for peace, But with quarrelling they never cease. "And how do you like that, Papa?"
"Heard what?" said Toad, turning rather pale. "Go on, Ratty! Quick! Don't spare me! What haven't I heard?" "Do you mean to tell me," shouted the Rat, thumping with his little fist upon the table, "that you've heard nothing about the Stoats and Weasels?" "What, the Wild Wooders?" cried Toad, trembling in every limb. "No, not a word! What have they been doing?"
But on Organ-Sunday no one would be outside of that Churi was convinced; therefore he had arranged everything in view of that, for although there would be an investigation, all the many Lower Wooders and Middle Lotters would be in that region, and the culprits would never be found out from among such a large crowd.
The father was just leaving his study when both rushed toward him and now it began: "We have the Middle Lotters with the Lower Wooders " "Hush, hush," said the father. "First get your breath, then relate, one after the other; but before anything, first the soup." With these words the father took Ritz's hand, and Sally and Edi followed them into the dining-room.
"And the Wild Wooders have been living in Toad Hall ever since," continued the Rat; "and going on simply anyhow! Eating your grub, and drinking your drink, and making bad jokes about you, and singing vulgar songs, about well, about prisons and magistrates, and policemen; horrid personal songs, with no humour in them.
Ritz looked quite obedient for he had two large noodles on his plate to work with. But Edi, in a moment, put down knife and fork and quickly began: "Just think, Papa, we have made three songs, one for each parish. First, the Lower Wooders began.
At present all the inhabitants of the three places were in great tension and expectation about something which caused so much talk that they hardly found time to attend to their daily business. The Upper Wooders had bought an organ for their church, which was to be dedicated the following Sunday. In the Middle Lot something was also taking place.
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