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"Call him 'Brownie," suggested Sister, down on her knees on the floor, watching the dog with shining eyes. "I think that is a nice name." "So do I," agreed Brother. "I do, too," said Ralph. "And now you must get dressed if you are not to be late for breakfast; and I must go down now I have to take an earlier train in." "Won't you come to the party?" begged Sister, as Ralph stood up to go.
Mrs Pinhorn, who had been standing near during this conversation, now struck sharply in: "They do say there was a brownie at the farm in those days, but when it got into other hands he was angered and quitted." "That's a curious superstition, ma'am," said the grocer politely. "There's folks in Danecross who give credit to it still," continued Mrs Pinhorn.
And his chief misdoings were against those who vexed the children. But he gradually made friends with several of his grown up enemies. Cook, for instance, who had ceased to be lazy at night and late in the morning, found no more black footmarks on her white table cloth. And Brownie found his basin of milk waiting for him, night after night, behind the coal-cellar door.
They forget all the steps when they are sad, and remember them again when they are merry. David tells me that fairies never say, 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey. Well, they were looking very undancey indeed, when sudden laughter broke out among the onlookers, caused by Brownie, who had just arrived and was insisting on her right to be presented to the Duke.
His words came out slowly, and sounded as if each was a bullet wrapped round with cotton wool to make it fit the barrel. Ginevra looked perplexed for a moment. "Should I say brownie, papa?" she asked. "How can I tell you what you should call a creature that has no existence?" rejoined her father. "If it be a creature, papa, it must have a name!" retorted the little logician, with great solemnity.
Before the chicks could fly they had a meeting with old Cuddy; though it was June, he was out with his gun. Up the third ravine he went, and Tike, his dog, ranging ahead, came so dangerously near the Brownie brood that Redruff ran to meet him, and by the old but never failing trick led him on a foolish chase away back down the valley of the Don.
Jane obeyed, and left the room. Claude soon after took the letter out of the bag, went to Emily's door, listened to ascertain that Jane was not there, and then knocked and was admitted. 'I could not help coming, said he, 'to tell you of the trap in which Brownie has been caught. 'Ah! said Lily, 'I fancied I saw her peeping slyly at your letter.
Yet still they did not like to betray the kind little Brownie. Greatly puzzled, they hung their heads and said nothing. "Look in your pail again," cried a voice from the other side of Dolly. And there at the bottom was just the usual quantity of milk no more and no less. The Gardener was very much astonished.
But I don't want to see him." "Nor more don't any of us," Brownie said, wrathfully. "Billabong had enough of Mr. Cecil. Dear sakes! when I think of him clearin' away from Miss Norah that night, an' what might have 'appened but for that blessed 'eathen, Lal Chunder, I don't feel 'ardly Christian, that I don't! Not as she ever made much of it but poor little lamb!" Mr.
"'Off, said the stranger off, off, and away!" sang Brownie mimicking a song of the Cook's. People in that house often heard their songs repeated in the oddest way, from room to room, everybody fancying it was somebody else that did it. But it was only the Brownie. "Now, 'A southerly wind and a cloudy sky proclaim a hunting morning!"
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