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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Well, they aren't Brownies, because they are a good little folk. And the Pixies, though their tricks are much the same, pursue their avocations out of doors on moor or hill; so that the only name I could find for them was just that Boo-Boos!" He laughed at her bewildered face. "Come, Mrs. Rose, don't you ever feel conscious of their teasing presence?
Luckily at that moment his lamp blew out, viciously; and with a muttered execration of the creatures he called Boo-Boos, he dismounted and relighted the flame, whose vagaries throughout the rest of the long ride kept him so fully occupied that he had neither time nor inclination to meditate on such abstractions as souls.
"I don't know where mine is," she said, half-crying, half-laughing. "I must have dropped it somewhere." "Or the Boo-Boos took it." He smiled at her puzzled expression.
"Don't you know those dreadful little people the people who hide one's pencils and one's handkerchiefs, put the clock back so that one misses one's train or an appointment and invariably send an organ-grinder outside one's window when one is hard at work and can't bear a noise!" "But why do you call them Boo-Boos?" She might have been a child asking for the explanation of a fairy-tale.
I'm afraid I didn't notice it," he said contritely. "Oh, it wasn't your fault. Perhaps it was one of your queer creatures, the Boo-Boos," said Toni with a wintry attempt at a smile; and Herrick was struck with the readiness with which she had adopted his whimsical theory.
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