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"Why did you run off without cleaning the black-boards for the lady mouse teacher?" "We forgot," said Johnnie, sort of ashamed-like and sorry. "That's what we came back to do clean the boards." "Well, that was good of you," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "But I have the boards nearly cleaned now."
'And what is a barrack-room, pray, my dear? were the first words I ever heard out of my lady's lips. 'No matter, my dear, said he, and went on talking to me, ashamed-like I should witness her ignorance. To be sure, Sir Kit had enough to do to answer her. 'And what do you call that, Sir Kit? said she; 'that that looks like a pile of black bricks, pray, Sir Kit?
He's preparing a quare bed of repentance for himself, so he is, the langwidge he's usin' about her all over the house. By-and-by he'll be rememberin' she's Sir Gerald's widdy, and'll be askin' me ashamed-like, 'I hope I didn't say too much about her Ladyship in my timper, Pat. She's a tryin' woman, a very tryin' woman.
We were ready to slip out, when our geese began to run at the new one, hiss and scream, and make such a racket that Laddie and Leon both caught us. They looked at the goose, at me, the Princess, and each other, and neither said a word. She looked back a little bit, and then she laughed as hard as she could. Leon grew red, and he grinned ashamed-like, so she laughed worse than ever.
The distric' nurse, she ain't the prayin' kind; an' Mr. Widymer he says he don't pray no more since he's come to college. He said it so kind of ashamed-like I didn't like to bother him again; and there ain't anybody else come my way for three months back.
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