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'Well, then, said I, 'Leda it shall be, and I shan't forget, for I like it, too, and it suits you, and you ought to have a name beginning with an "L." Good-night, my dear, sleep well, and dream, dream. 'And to you, too, my God give dleams of peace and pleasantness, says she; and I went.
"I know lots an' lots of Clipture," her niece's voice proclaimed proudly as she sat down heavily in her wheelbarrow on the top of some garden produce she had collected. "How much do you know?" Tony asked sceptically. "Oh, lots an' lots, all about poor little Jophez in the bullushes, and his instasting dleams." "Twasn't Jophez," Tony corrected.
"It was Mophez in the bulrushes, and he didn't have no dreams. That was Jophez." "How d'you know," Fay persisted, "that poor little Mophez had no dleams? Why shouldn't he have dleams same as Jophez?" "It doesn't say so." "It doesn't say he didn't have dleams. He had dleams, I tell you; I know he had. Muts nicer dleams van Jophez." "Let's ask Meg; she'll know." Jan gave a sigh of relief.
Meg started to put her children to bed, only to find that her fertility of imagination in the afternoon was to prove her undoing in the evening; for her memory was by no means as reliable as her powers of invention. Little Fay urgently demanded the whole cycle of little Mophez' dleams over again.
"I should think," Meg said thoughtfully, "that he dreamed he must cry very quietly lest the Egyptians should hear him." "Deah littoo Mophez ... and what nelse?" Meg was tempted and fell. It was very easy for her to invent "dleams" for "deah littoo Mophez" lying in his bulrush ark among the flags at the river's edge.
The children had not noticed her, and Meg had a fertile mind. When Meg had disentangled the questions and each child sat down in a wheelbarrow at her feet, she remarked judicially: "Well, there's nothing said about little Moses' dreams, certainly; but I should think it's quite likely the poor baby did have dreams." "What sort of dleams? Nicer van sheaves and sings, wasn't they?"
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