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"Mine's a weeny bit bigger'n yours this time," decides Sheila, and holds her cooky heroically while Hans takes a just and lawful bite out of his sister's larger share. "The blessed little angels!" I say to myself, melting. "The dear, unselfish little sweeties!" and give each of them another cooky. Back to my typewriter. But the words flatly refuse to come now.
"Bigger'n the Forks?" queried Margaret doubtfully. "Why, it is much, much bigger," said Nan, hopeless of making one so densely ignorant understand anything of the proportions of the metropolis of the lakes. "That's what I told Bob," Margaret said. "He don't believe it. Bob's my brother, but there never was such a dunce since Adam." Nan had to laugh. The strange girl amused her.
"Why, if there isn't Mr. Clark!" she exclaimed, and the smith looked up, grinned, dropped his tongs, and came toward them, wiping his hand on his smudgy apron. "Hello, Joan!" he called out. "You're a bit bigger'n you used to be, when I made iron rings for you."
"Who is that man, Corpril?" asked Monty Scruggs, as the Orderly left. "That's the Orderly-Sergeant of Co. "Orderly-Sergeant?" repeated Monty dubiously. "Who's he? I've heard of Captains, Majors, Colonels and Generals, but never of Orderly-Sergeants, and yit he seems to be bigger'n all of 'em. He has more to say, and does more orderin' around than all of 'em put together.
"'Cause 'twas the easiest way. You couldn't tie him up, not in a cart no bigger'n this. Might's well tie up an elephant. Besides, he won't stay tied up nowheres. Busted more clotheslines than I've got fingers and toes, that pup has. He needs a chain cable to keep him to his moorin's. Don't ye, Job, you old earthquake? Hey?"
Somehow that scairt me, an' I jumped up an' whipped it home without lookin' behind me. Now that's my experience," said Hannah Prime, looking her neighbors again in the face, with dauntless eyes. "I dunno what 'twas, but it's goin' to last. I ain't afraid no more, an' I ain't goin' to be. There ain't nuthin' to worry about. Everything's bigger'n we think."
"Why not? I'm bigger'n you." "Yes, but you're an awful coward, Jake, and nobody knows it better than I do, except you. You wouldn't dare to lay a finger on me. I could make you lie down before me and Pshaw! you know you're a coward and that's enough about it." "Why didn't you leave me for the boys to find, then, and tell the whole story?" "Because I'm not a coward or a sneak.
Jock Murphy ain't much bigger'n a rabbit tack and all, he won't weigh ninety-five. That would make, say, fifteen pounds of lead in the weight pad.
Now that hickory nut day, when me and my chum got full of Pa's liver medicine, I felt so good natured I gave my hickory nuts away to the children, and wanted to give my coat and pants to a poor tramp, but my chum, who ain't no bigger'n me, got on his ear and wanted to kick the socks off a little girl who was going home from school. It's queer, ain't it. Well, about the cornet.
She hoped that their children would have things a little easier. The baby whimpered, and she held him closer. Denny's voice piped up: "Cousin Nancy, will Abe ever grow to be as big as me?" "Bigger'n you are now," she told him. "Will he grow as big as Cousin Tom?" "Bigger'n anybody, maybe." Nancy looked down at her son, now peacefully asleep.
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