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One can hardly remember seeing many French babies, for the reason that there are so few to remember so few, indeed, that the French government has put a premium upon them; but in Naples the pretty mothers with their pretty babies, playing at bo-peep with each other like charming children, are some of the most delightful scenes in this fascinating Street of the Door.
Howland said in a low whisper to her daughter, "He doesn't know you have returned; he is very playful. Just stay quiet. He really is a most amusing person." "Bo-peep!" said a voice at the door; and a round, shining, bald head was popped in and then disappeared. "Bo-peep!" said Mrs. Howland in response. She stood up, and there came over her faded face a waggish expression.
"Do you remember what the song you were singing a week ago says about Bo-Peep how she lost her sheep, but got twice as many lambs?" asked North Wind, sitting down on the grass, and placing him in her lap as before. "Oh yes, I do, well enough," answered Diamond; "but I never just quite liked that rhyme." "Why not, child?"
Jemima was again at her elbow, and the restraint of her presence did not prevent an animated conversation, in which love, sly urchin, was ever at bo-peep. So much of heaven did they enjoy, that paradise bloomed around them; or they, by a powerful spell, had been transported into Armida's garden.
Nothing ever kept Mrs. Martin awake; and, notwithstanding her anxiety with regard to Maggie, she slept soundly that night. Bo-peep was his own delightful self. His jokes were really too good for anything! She regarded him as the wittiest man of her acquaintance. She laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks.
At last they sat down on the stone benches which surrounded a fine grass-plot with an ancient sundial in the middle. Many of the children were content to sit quietly and rest; but Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue, being very young, and naturally rather playful, could not restrain themselves, and they took their places on the grass and began to play.
"No, you can't go! What a plague you are, tagging around when people don't want you." Sancho might have answered, "So are you," but, being a gentlemanly dog, he sat down with a resigned expression to watch the little colts, who were now awake and seemed ready for a game of bo-peep behind their mammas.
"Was the skirt hobble?" demanded Billie. "It sounds to me like a Little Bo-Peep costume," put in Mary Price. "I think one should dress quite quietly on a camping party," observed Elinor Butler. Mr. Campbell seized his hat.
Perhaps you have never noticed their tails at all." "No," answered Bo-Peep, thoughtfully, "I do n't know that I ever have." The woman laughed so hard at this reply that she began to cough, and this made the girl remember that her flock had strayed away. "I really must go and find my sheep," she said, rising to her feet, "and then I shall be sure to notice their tails, and see if they wag them."
Baby had forgotten him, and was taken with such a fit of screaming shyness, that Susan had to take her, and Annie to play bo-peep with her, before she would let anyone's voice be heard. "I've taken you by surprise, Miss Fosbrook," said the Captain, shaking hands with her in the midst of the clatter. "Oh, it is such a pleasure!" she began. "I hope you left Mrs. Merrifield much better."
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