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She had never supposed it possible that she could laugh again, and indeed she seldom felt like it, but Ansel's interpretations of Shaker doctrine were almost too much for her latent sense of humor. "What are you smiling at, and me so sad, Mardie?" quavered Sue, piteously, from the little plot of easy weeding her mother had given her to do. "I keep remembering my game!
"What's a a ockstritch?" asked Sue, for that was as near as she could say the funny word. "An ostrich," answered Grandpa Brown, "is a big bird, much bigger than the biggest Thanksgiving turkey. It has long legs, and fine feathers, and ladies wear them on their hats. I mean they wear the ostrich feathers, not the bird's legs." "And do ockstritches lay big eggs?" Sue wanted to know.
"You can get another by that time." "Not I. I am not a sycophant hanging round White Hall! 'Twas sheer good luck and no merit of mine that got me the guardianship of Sue. Lord Middlesborough, her kinsman, wanted it; the Courts would have given her to him, but old Noll thought him too much of a 'gentleman, whilst I an out-at-elbows country squire, was more to my Lord Protector's liking.
They played together nearly all the while, though often they would bring other children to their yard, or would go to theirs, to play games, and have jolly times. Bunny was a boy full of fun and one who sometimes took chances of getting into mischief, just to have a "good time." And Sue was not far behind him. But they never meant to do wrong, and everyone loved them.
As for the tail, when it is separated from the dog it is no longer the dog's tail, and it is not worth fighting about." "Can't sue Potts, you say?" "I think not." "Can't get damages for the piece that's been bit out of me?" "I hardly think you can." "Well, well, and yet they talk about American civilization, and temples of justice, and such things! All right. Let it go.
"But we could take the two dogs, Dix and Splash, with us, and they could bite the lion if he chased us," said Bunny. His mother shook her head, and Bunny knew there was no use teasing any more. "I wouldn't go after any lion!" declared Sue. "And I want to find a good place to hide Sallie Malinda." "What for?" asked Bunny. "So the lion can't find her," said the little girl.
They sue me I laugh as I spurn The slaves at my knee, But in faith and in fondness I turn Unto thee, unto thee! 'Now for the travelling, Wiggle my boy! And I began, in a voice choked with emotion 'Away! for my heart knows no rest Since you taught it to feel; The secret must die in my breast I burn to reveal; The passion I may not. . . .
Admiral Mundy begged the authorities to stop the bombardment before the city was destroyed, but Lanza appeared to have no intention of yielding to his counsels, and it is still uncertain what at last induced him on the 30th of May to sue the Filibuster, hastily transformed into his Excellency, for an armistice of twenty-four hours.
'If visionary chivalry and imaginary loyalty come within the predicament of high treason, replied the magistrate, 'I know no court in Christendom, my dear Mr. Morton, where they can sue out their Habeas Corpus. 'But I cannot see that this youth's guilt is at all established to my satisfaction, said the clergyman. 'Because your good-nature blinds your good sense, replied Major Melville.
Word was telephoned to George that his pet bantam was all right. In a little while every one in the house was in bed. If this book had started out to be a Christmas story I could put in a lot about what nice presents Bunny and Sue got. And also how Santa Claus did not forget Mart and Lucile.