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Updated: June 4, 2025
No less than seven little men and women in nightcaps, in frocks, in bibs, in breeches, are clambering about the head, knees, and arms of the man with the nose; their noses, too, are preternaturally developed the twins in the cradle have noses of the most considerable kind. Not handsome certainly are they, and yet everybody must be charmed with the picture. It is full of grotesque beauty.
Hence the house was too tidy for any sense of comfort. If you left an open book on the table, you would, on returning to the room a moment after, find it put aside. What the furniture of the drawing-room was like, I never saw; for not even on Christmas Day, which was the last day I spent there, was it uncovered. Everything in it was kept in bibs and pinafores.
I asked little favors of him which necessitated his coming to my house; then I asked more, which kept him. Thus it was that many delightful hours were spent in the cozy, cheerful living-room of the little house perched high upon the hill. In one shadowy corner Jane Gray usually sat, busy with her endless knitting of bibs for babies.
"That will do, Max," said Miss Bibby, coldly. "I shall consider you in disgrace, until you have told Anna and Muffie you are sorry." "I've done wiv bibs," shouted Max. "Go and stand in that corner, Max," Miss Bibby said with unexpected sternness in her tone. Max scrambled off his chair as if he could hardly reach the place indicated fast enough.
There was an interval devoted on her part to various bibs and trays, and a low aside to the waitress. Then she went on: "As you know, I went, meanin' to beg off. On account of baby bein' so little, and Leo's cough, and the paperers bein' upstairs, and all! I thought I'd just make a donation, and let it go at that. But the ladies all kind of hung back there was very few there and I got talkin' "
Besides, Pissimissi bought every thing she saw wherever she came; and all was crouded into the car and stuffed into the seat. She had purchased ninety-two dolls, seventeen baby-houses, six cart-loads of sugar-plumbs, a thousand ells of gingerbread, eight dancing dogs, a bear and a monkey, four toy-shops with all their contents, and seven dozen of bibs and aprons of the newest fashion.
The whole adult village, at least the feminine portion of it, young and old, presented themselves at the party, dressed in their best bibs and tuckers, amusing themselves outdoors at various improvised games, under the genial generalship of their host; and regaling themselves within at the tea-tables presided over by Mrs.
So she got some grain, and they both sat down on a little box and held the ducks in their laps and fed them from their hands. The ducks ate greedily. "You have very bad manners," said Kat. "You will get your clothes all dirty." She took two rags and tied them around the ducks' necks for bibs. The ducks did not like bibs. They quacked. "Now don't say anything like that," said Kat.
The kiddies were sitting in a row along the top of the back steps, eating cookies and milk, with bibs around their necks, from the twelve year old Jennie, who had tied on hers for fun, down to the chubby-kins next to the baby, and Mamie was sitting flat on the grass in front of them nursing little Ned, with big Ned sitting beside her with his arm around both her and the baby.
These were Manilov's sons, and boys of the age which admits of their presence at table, but necessitates the continued use of high chairs. Beside them was their tutor, who bowed politely and smiled; after which the hostess took her seat before her soup plate, and the guest of honour found himself esconsed between her and the master of the house, while the servant tied up the boys' necks in bibs.
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