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They were on the edge of the quarry woods which sheltered the Colonel's outlying sheep pastures and protected from the north wind the two sheepfolds that were used for the autumn and early spring. Dulcie and Doosie, obedient to Aileen's request, raced hand in hand across the short-turfed pastures, balancing their baskets of red berries.
"'Coz we come down the road after we got through the last pasture " "Oh, he was so big!" Doosie shuddered as her imagination began to work more vigorously with the recital "bigger'n a man " "What nonsense." The twins had been telling all this at the same time, and their mother's common sense and downright exclamation brought them to a full stop. They looked crestfallen.
It's Doosie Caukins has begged the loan of the two little gells for the afternoon. The twins seem to me most like my own rale downright swate gells, an' it's hopin' I am they'll do well when it' comes to their marryin'." Aileen laughed merrily at the matrimonial persistence of her old chum's thoughts. "Oh, Maggie, you are an incorrigible matchmaker!"
"I'd like to know what right Luigi Poggi has to tell my children not to tell their mother anything and everything!" She spoke with waxing excitement; every motherly pin-feather was erect. "He was 'fraid it would scare you," ventured Doosie. "Scare me! He must have a pretty poor opinion of a woman that can raise six boys of her own and then be 'scared' at what two snips of girls can tell her.
The words were scarcely out of her mouth before Mrs. Caukins, without heeding Aileen, was hurrying down the road. The little girl, wholly out of breath, threw herself down exhausted on the grass before the door. Aileen and Doosie ran out to her. "What is it, Dulcie can't you tell me?" said Aileen. Between quickened breaths the child told what she knew. "Luigi stopped to speak to Mr. Emlie and Mr.
"Doosie is with me, Elvira; I would let well enough alone for the present, if I were you," said the Colonel admonishingly. His wife wisely took the hint. "Come up, Dulcie," he called, "father's ready." Dulcie hopped up stairs. "You haven't said what matters of importance kept you last night." Mrs. Caukins returned to her muttons with redoubled energy.
Their father had been a boy, and at fifty had a boy's heart within him this was the secret of his success. Mrs. Caukins appeared at last, radiant in the consciousness of a new chip hat and silk blouse. Dulcie and Doosie in white lawn did their pains-taking mother credit in every respect.
She felt she charmed him; she knew that he timed his coming and going that he might encounter her in the house or about the grounds, whenever and wherever he could sometimes alone in her boat on the long arm of the lake, that makes up to the west and is known as "lily-pad reach"; and afterwards, during the autumn, in the quarry woods above The Gore where with her satellites, Dulcie and Doosie Caukins, she went to pick checkerberries.
They don't know their own minds from one six minutes to the next. Why don't you want to go?" she demanded, coming at last to the point. Aileen was listening in amused silence. "'Coz we got scared awful scared," said Dulcie under her breath. "Scared most to death," Doosie added solemnly. Both Mrs. Caukins and Aileen saw at once that the children were in earnest. "You look scared!" said Mrs.
From time to time she groaned heavily as her struggle continued. The two children were terrified. Doosie raced distractedly across the pastures to get 'Lias, and Dulcie ran into the house for water. Her little hand was trembling as she held the glass to Aileen's white quivering lips that refused it.
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