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I've promised him I'd never lie to him about what I ate, and I must keep my word ... he'll whip me, perhaps." "Does he whip you much?" "Not very much ... only when I need it ... and then when I cry, he stops so it is never very hard!" I laughed at the boy's frank philosophy.... "But daddy's so funny ... not at all like other daddies," wistfully. I did not grow friendly enough with Mrs.
The scoundrel quite Regency in his notions tried indeed to deprave me altogether, preached Saint-Simonism as to women, and all sorts of lordly ideas; but, you see, I was fond enough of my girl to have married her, only I was afraid of having children. "Then between two old daddies, such friends as as we were, what more natural than that we should think of our children marrying each other?
And oh, my, wasn't he delighted and so were all the little forest folk, for they were all there, let me tell you, from Old Squirrel Nutcracker to the Big Brown Bear. And so were the little people from the Pleasant Meadow, Dicky Meadow Mouse and Robbie Redbreast and many others. And pretty soon along came the barnyard folk, Cocky Docky, Henny Jenny and Duckey Daddies. Even Mrs.
He was made chairman of the bearers, of whom Ephraim Prescott was one. After this, as we have said, Jethro was more than ever at the store or rather in that domestic domain behind it which Wetherell and Cynthia shared with Miss Millicent Skinner. Moses Hatch was wont to ask Cynthia how her daddies were.
Not, indeed, that the Forestburg boys were rougher than other boys, for I guess they are all pretty much alike; but we had been taught to hate and shun the McDermotts. They were newcomers, and Danny McDermott had been a Young Irelander, or something else equally as dreadful. Then, too, Forestburg was a Knownothing stronghold, and we fell naturally into our daddies' way of thinking.
This, however, seriously I do believe, that when my two daddies put their heads together to concert that hissing, groaning, cat-calling epistle they sent me, they felt as sorry for poor little Miss Bayes as she could possibly do for herself. You see I do not attempt to repay your frankness with the air of pretended carelessness.
Then the daddy would say to the mother: "I feel ashamed of myself to cry when I think of the thousands of daddies and husbands who are leaving their homes, not for six months' or a year's service, but 'for the period of the war, and leaving with so much more of a cloud hanging over them than I. I have every hope that I will be back with you in six or eight months, but they "
When they saw her, several learned fairies, who had come from a distance, fell at once into conversation on this subject. One remarked: "How would the Queen like to add another syllable to her name? "Well not so bad, however; because many mortal daddies, who have a daughter, call her Puss. It is a term of affection with them and the little girls never seem to be offended." "Oh!
Why I got a 'Betty' baby of my own, and that 'Daddy Over There' song you sang is the sweetest thing I've heard in France, and it will help those daddies more than a hymn would. I'm glad you got them to singing." And now I'm back home, and I thought the Silhouettes of Song were all over, but I stepped into a church the other Sunday.
"He has been a good father to me," she said, "the kindest and best of daddies. It is dreadful to think " her lips quivered and she could go no further. Nor could Stafford King make matters any easier for her. He knew better than she the depth of Solomon White's commitments.
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