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Updated: May 5, 2025
The conversation was carried on in brief and broken phrases. The man and the woman sat close together shivering over the fire. There were no curtains to the windows, and the fog had crept through the sashes into the room. Kate coughed from time to time a sharp, hacking cough and Ralph's wheezing grew thicker in sound. 'I'm a-fraid I shall have a b-bad night, this dre-ad-ful weather.
Upon my word, I thought he was going to weep over me. Next moment he turned his collar up with a violence that nearly upset him, and exclaimed: "D-don't you be a-fraid. I'll see you safely home. G-go by yourself? not much you won't! I'll take you to your mother. S-say, you've got a mother, haven't you? Yes, that's right; every girl's worth anythin's got a mother.
"There is no rea-son to be a-fraid of the Wheel-ers," said Tiktok, the words coming more slowly than before. "Why not?" she asked. "Be-cause they are ag-g-g gr-gr-r-r-"
The Nome King growled a menacing growl and his eyes were red with rage. "How dare you enter my presence?" he shouted. "I dare an-y-thing," said Tiktok. "I'm not a-fraid of a fat Nome." This was true, yet an unwise speech. Had Tiktok's thoughts been in good working order he would have said something else. The angry Nome King quickly caught up his heavy mace and hurled it straight at Tiktok.
"I'm not a-fraid," said Tiktok. "Then walk in and make yourself at home," answered Kaliko, and threw open the door of the King's cavern. Tiktok promptly walked in and faced the astonished Nome King, to whom he said: "Good morn-ing. I want two new steel springs for my thought-works and a new cog-wheel for my speech-pro-du-cer. How a-bout it, your Maj-es-ty?"
"I meant to return the record next morning, but I was a-fraid your father might shoot me," to Pemrose. "Then, later, I heard he had gone down the mountain that was yesterday and a mistake I went-down, too, to beard him. A a little more water, please! I could not climb again until to-day; I took the Man Killer trail, as being the shortest. And here I am!" grimly.
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