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And Daddie worked, and mammy worked, and another woman. You are pleased, ain't you, Uncle Dannie?" "Who told ye to call me Uncle?" asked Dannie, with unsteady lips. "She did!" announced the little woman, flourishing the whip in the direction of the cabin. Dannie climbed down to unhitch. "You are goin' to be my Uncle, ain't you, as soon as it's a little over a year, so folks won't talk?"
He watched the white arm wielding the brush with great pleasure; he decided he liked to look at it. "Auntie Jan!" She turned and flung her hair back from her face in a great silver cloud. "You awake, sonny! Did I make a noise?" "No, I just woke. Auntie Jan, will Daddie ever come here?" "I expect so." "Well, listen. If he does, he shan't take your things, your pretty twinkly things.
Tony loved trains; he had only been twice to the junction since he came to Wren's End; it was a fascinating place. Daddie seemed in an agreeable mood this morning. Auntie Jan would be pleased that he should be nice to him. It all fell out as if the fates had arranged things for Hugo.
Baby's dreams she even interior decorates." "My instructor liked that idea, too. He gave me 'A' on the drawing." "He should have given you the whole alphabet. And tell him about the chairs, Ada. Such originality." "Oh, Mrs. Turkletaub, that was just a a little idea " "The modesty of her! Believe me, if it was mine, I'd call it a big one. Tell him." "Mummie and daddie chairs I call them."
Perhaps some girlish idea of hobgoblins assailed her then, for she called in a little breathless voice, "Daddie!" There was no reply. The fire in the cooking-stove in the room crackled at spasmodic intervals. One lid was misplaced, and the girl could now see that this fact created a little flushed crescent upon the ceiling.
She was a well-instructed person, too, on the whole, and she answered a straight question in a straight way. It was one of the things Tony could never condone in the big man called Daddie, that he could never answer the simplest question. He always asked another in return, and there was derision of some sort concealed in this circuitous answer.
"Never ask folk's names, Jeanie it's no civil I hae seen half-a-dozen o' folk in my mother's at ance, and ne'er ane a' them ca'd the ither by his name; and Daddie Ratton says, it is the most uncivil thing may be, because the bailie bodies are aye asking fashions questions, when ye saw sic a man, or sic a man; and if ye dinna ken their names, ye ken there can be nae mair speerd about it."
At the drive gate he met Earley carrying the can of cream, with Tony trotting by his side. "I'm going into the village, Tony, and Auntie Jan says you may as well come with me for company. Will you come?" Tony looked dubious. Still, he remembered that Auntie Jan had said he must try and be kind to poor Daddie, who had been so ill and was so sad.
Now, deil ane o' them will touch an acquaintance o' Daddie Ratton's; for though I am retired frae public practice, yet they ken I can do a gude or an ill turn yet and deil a gude fellow that has been but a twelvemonth on the lay, be he ruffler or padder, but he knows my gybe* as well as the jark of e'er a queer cuffin * in England and there's rogue's Latin for you." * Pass.
'Well, he ses, 'I'll come when 'e ain't in, b' Gawd, I'll come when 'e ain't in. 'Oh, he's allus in when it means takin' care 'o me, I ses. 'Don't yeh fergit it, either. When it comes t' takin' care o' his dorter, he's right on deck every single possible time." After a time, she turned and addressed cheery words to the old man. "Hurry up th' fire, Daddie! We'll have supper pretty soon."
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