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Updated: September 1, 2025
Both were relieved when Betsy Lavender made her appearance, saying, "Let down your gownd, Sally, and give me that ladle. What'd be a mighty heap o' work for you, in that flustered condition, is child's-play to the likes o' me, that's as steady as a cart-horse, not that self-praise, as the sayin' is, is any recommendation, but my kickin' and prancin' days is over, and high time, too."
"The Baron's tales are mere child's-play, mother," said Robin, "to the grand facts of electricity."
That ball grazed her tail, but she is too old a soldier to wince at trifles. Hullo, friend, where is your horse? 'At the bottom of the ditch, said Sir Gervas, scraping the mud off his dress with his sword-blade. ''Tis now half-past two, he continued, 'and we have been at this child's-play for an hour and more. With a line regiment, too! It is not what I had looked forward to!
We need not waste time in going into the details of the feast that followed: how the goose was delightfully plump and tender especially tender to teeth that would have scarcely observed the difference if it had been tough how, in addition to the goose, they had wild-ducks enough shot earlier in the day to afford each one a duck to himself, leaving a brace over, of which Okematan ate one, as well as his share of the goose, and seemed to wish that he might eat the other, but he didn't, for he restrained himself; how they drank tea with as much gusto and intemperance as if it had been a modern "afternoon"; and how, after all was over, the Red-man filled the pipe-head on the back of his iron tomahawk and began to smoke with the air of a man who meant business and regarded all that had gone before as mere child's-play.
At last the darkness became so deep that its form mingled with the shadows on the ground, and for some time the uncertainty as to its actual presence kept the prisoner wakeful; but soon his eyes began to close, despite his utmost efforts to keep them open; and for two hours he endured an agonising struggle with sleep, compared to which his previous struggle with Black Jim was mere child's-play.
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