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Handsomebody greatly respected Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Pegg, and this play of words on the name incensed her. "Am I to understand Alexander," she gobbled, "that you are making game of the Mortimer Peggs?" "Yes," giggled the wretched Seraph, "it's a cwibbage game. You play it wiv Peggs." "Leave the table instantly!" ordered Mrs. Handsomebody. "You are becoming unbearable."
The next morning the vessel set sail amid great cheering from a crowd which had gathered on the dock, and for days they sailed and sailed, and it got colder and colder till the vessel came to great fields of ice. But the dolls were happy, for they thought they were getting close to the North Pole and soon they would find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather.
"Maybe this will do," and he picked all the kernels off except two for the eyes, one for the nose, two more for the ears and a row for the teeth. And he ran to Peggs to have her sew some clothes for his soldier. "What do you think of Little Miss Sweetclover?" says Peggs, holding it up for Jackie to see. "I think she's very pretty," says Jackie, "only she needs legs."
There is no record, however, to tell whether the Indecent fashion was abandoned, but I warrant no tithingman was powerful enough to make Andover women take off their proudly worn Sunday bonnets if they did not want to. Another town voted that it was the "Town's Mind" that the women should take off their bonnets and "hang them on the peggs," as did the men their headgear.
"If no one will give us a soldier"... "But I don't want a soldier," says Peggs. "I want a doll." "Let's make one," says Jackie. "That's a good way," says Peggs. "You bet," says Jackie, and he slapped one of his legs the way sailors do in tales of the sea. "What'll we make it of?" asked Peggs. "Things," says Jackie. "Goodie!" says Peggs.
"Did Jackie lose his motheranfather too?" asked Kernel Cob. "Of course," answered Sweetclover. "Don't you know that Jackie and Peggs are brother and sister?" "Sure," said Kernel Cob. "Well then," said Sweetclover. "You didn't tell me," said Kernel Cob. "Tell you what?" asked Sweetclover. "If Jackie lost his motheranfather," said Kernel Cob.
"Have you been long in Valparaiso?" he asked. And she told him her story. How they had been to the moon in search of Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather, and so on, till the moment when he had met them on the road.
We always passed the hours of our confinement on the bed, for the room was very small and the one window stared blankly at the window of an unused room in the Peggs' house, which blankly returned the stare. But these were not dull times for us.
And he colored the eyes with black ink and the lips with red, and, much before you could say "Crickety," the soldier was all finished. "What'll we call him?" asked Jackie. And they thought, and thought, and thought. "I have it!" said Jackie. "What?" asked Peggs. "We'll call him Kernel Cob," says Jackie. "Goodie!" says Peggs, clapping her hands with glee.
And once, when they were making pies in the garden, Peggs began to cry and Jackie ran and put his arms about her, for he loved his little Peggs very dearly; and he said to her: "What's the matter, Peggsie? Did a spider bite you?" "No," says Peggs, "it didn't." "Was it a naughty worm?" "No," says Peggs, "it wasn't." "Well, what was it?" says Jackie.
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