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"But I wish Dula could talk English or I could talk her tongue a little better." The woman smiled intelligently as she rearranged the bright-coloured plaid sarong around the child and said in a pleasant voice: "Ba-be bet-ter." The Doctor took a step forward, and the child shrank from him as he laid his hand upon its head and gazed fixedly in its eyes.
"Well, Snac," said Reuben, "it will be all the bet-ter for you in the end, and I hope it may mend sooner. But if the fact of my meaning to get married has done so much good as you say it has, I'm very glad to know it, and I'll take it as a happy sign." It seemed an augury of happiness as he walked alone about the fields, and dwelt upon it.
"Do you want some company, boys?" asked Uncle Robert, smiling. "You bet-ter believe!" said Donald, catching himself just in time. "Hurrah for the rainy day!" cried Frank as he pulled on his rubber boots and coat and went out to dig the worms. "Shall we take the boat?" asked Uncle Robert. "Oh, yes," said Donald. "I'll get the oars." "We'll have fish for dinner to-day, mother," said Frank.
I'm as good as new, and perhaps bet-ter." "That is true, your Majesty," added Kaliko, who now made his appearance, "and I hope you will forgive me for mending Tiktok. He was quite broken up, after you smashed him, and I found it almost as hard a job to match his pieces as to pick turnips from gooseberry bushes. But I did it," he added proudly.
"This will never do!" said Tom, pausing and wiping his forehead; "Grip will spoil everything with his ridiculous barking, and the whole neighborhood will come to see what is the matter. Here, Grip! Here, this minute! Very well, sir! ver-y well! ex-treme-ly well! You'd better come, sir! You'd bet-ter, oh! you're coming, are you?
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