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There ain't any strawberries to pick or blackberries to sell or snow to sweep or " "Let's give a nentertaimnent in our barn like Hec and the boys did last week in their carriage-shed. They charged a cent apiece, and earned more'n a quarter, Hec told me. And I know we could give a better entertainment than they did. You could sing and Cherry could speak. Perhaps we could coax Hope to read to us.
"What makes Hec so grave?" said Catharine to her companion, as they seated themselves upon a mossy trunk to await his coming up; for they had giddily chased each other till they had far outrun him.
'Oh, I know where you mean, said Hec. 'It's Friendly's it's a mixty sort of shop. 'Do look again, Mith Mouse, said Gervais, 'the venny first time you go that way, and p'raps somebody will give me one at Chrithiemuss. He heaved a deep sigh of hope and anxiety in one. And Rosamond smiled to herself as she made a little plan. The winter was not going to set in just yet after all.
You needn't all come, he added to the others; 'I don't want the kids, but they'd get into mischief if we leave them here alone, and he glanced at Hec and Ger doubtfully. Aunt Mattie smiled again to herself at Justin's last words.
It was certainly a memorable day for Wolf Willow, whose inhabitants were exalted to a height of glory as they never experienced in all their history. "Serves us right," said Monteith, the High River Captain, apologising for his team's poor display to his friend, Hec Ross, who had commanded the Wolf Willow team. "We deserved to be jolly well licked, and we got what was coming to us."
"And we should never want for meat, if we could catch a fine fawn from time to time, ma belle." "Hec., what are you thinking of?" "I was thinking, Louis, that If we were doomed to remain here all our lives, we must build a house for ourselves; we could not live in the open air without shelter as we have done.
'Hec, if anybody asks you what you think I'd like for a Chrithiemuss present, just you tell them a ball like Mith Mouse's, only p'raps even a little bigger. Do you think, Mith Mouse, that they cost a great lot of money? Rosamond shook her head. 'Not such a very great lot, I don't think, she replied.
It only needs a little luck to make him a great man. In fact, he already is a great man." "You mean you think he has a great mind?" "Why, no, sir; but I think he has a purpose so big and so set, that it might be called great, and it will make him great." "What purpose?" Joe answered quietly but very slowly, pulling at his cigar after each syllable: "Hec tor J. Ran som!"
"Rely on me, by Hec!" said the High Priest grimly, as he fingered his weapon. The High Priest was as good as his word. Early on the morrow he made his way to the Linx, and found the King holing-out on the second green. Merolchazzar was in high good humour. "Greetings, O venerable one!" he cried, jovially.
Now let the flowers bend their heads and the gazelle of the mountains confess itself a cripple. Princess, your slave!" And King Merolchazzar, with that easy grace so characteristic of Royalty, took her hand in his and kissed it. As he did so, he gave a start of surprise. "By Hec!" he exclaimed. "What hast thou been doing to thyself? Thy hand is all over little rough places inside.
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