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Torpenhow was on the top floor, and Dick burst into his room, to be received with a hug which nearly cracked his ribs, as Torpenhow dragged him tot he light and spoke of twenty different things in the same breath. 'But you're looking tucked up, he concluded. 'Got anything to eat? said Dick, his eye roaming round the room. 'I shall be having breakfast in a minute. What do you say to sausages?
I cried as I started with him for our place, now partly hidden by the orchard apple and pear trees I had helped to plant seven years before, when father really pitched his tent by the kopje, and he, Bob a little, round-headed tot of a fellow then Aunt Jenny, and I lived in the canvas construction till we had built a house of stone.
But I see you're about all in. I shan't bother you with any more questions now. Williams, see these men have a change, and a tot of rum. And some of you give 'em a good rub down. They're stiff with cold. He nodded again and went off. Williams, a burly torpedo coxswain, at once took charge of Ken.
It certainly was, for, having examined the shells, the busy tot laid hold of everything she could find, and continued her researches till Archie caught her sucking his carved ivory chessmen to see if they were not barley sugar. Rice paper pictures were also discovered crumpled up in her tiny pocket, and she nearly smashed Will's ostrich egg by trying to sit upon it.
"We'll go and talk to Ruth Temple," decided the younger man, his eye lighting on the central figure of a group, chiefly masculine. "Who can look at her and maintain that the higher education of women is a mere factory for frumps?" "Ruth has a quaint rareness all her own," Sprague answered, watching the play of the girl's mobile face. "She had it as a mere tot.
There was an expression in her eyes which made Mrs. Meadowsweet cry out: "Bee, you have got a hunger at your heart. Oh, child, you want your mammy I never saw that look in your eyes since long, long ago, when you were a little tot, and wanted your mammy more than anything else in all the wide world." "I want her now," said Beatrice. She put her arms about her mother, and wept on her shoulder.
The facts which he states, respecting the Treaty of 1804, in virtue of the provisions of which the government claimed the country in dispute and enforced its arguments with the sword, are worthy of attention. It purported to cede tot he United States all of the country, including the village and corn-fields of Black Hawk and his band, on the east side of the Mississippi.
Five minutes afterwards the Americans found themselves seated at a table garlanded with red-berried holly, trailing ivy, and pearl-eyed mistletoe, and surrounded by a round dozen of Farrars, including several youngsters whose general place was in schoolroom or nursery, but who, even to a tot of three, were promoted to dine in splendor on Christmas Day.
K.'s room, as a favor, mind you, so that the older girls could go to school and Tot have some one to look after her. She agreed, and that saved her fire, and made the K.'s all right. "This summer the whole batch are to go to Uncle Frank's farm and pick berries, and get strong. He hires dozens of women and children during the fruit season, and Mrs. Grover said it was just what they all needed.
It was him as saved my life at least him and Mr Aspel, you know." "No, I don't know, Tot. Let's hear all about it," replied Mr Bones, with a look of unwonted gravity. Tottie went off at once into a glowing account of the fire and the rescue, to which her father listened with profound attention, not unmingled with surprise. Then he reverted to the aspect of the surrounding country.
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