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Uncle James would wear a gray wig and "small clothes" and personate "Grandsir Whalen"; Kyzie Dunlee, Grandsir's old wife, in white cap, "short gown," and petticoat, was to be "Granny Whalen" of course. A grandson and granddaughter were needed for this aged couple. Edith would make a lovely granddaughter and pretend to spin flax. Who would play the grandson and shell the corn?
"To box a child's ears is simply brutal!" "I knew you'd say so, mamma; but that was just what Miss Severance did. Of course I wouldn't touch their ears any more than I would fly!" Mrs. Dunlee turned now and regarded her daughter attentively. "But how did you ever happen to take up this sudden fancy for teaching, dear? It's all new to me. What first made you think of it at your age? Can you tell?"
"Oh, wasn't it, though?" said Edith. "Cats have hearts, I always knew they did." "That shows you're a sensible little girl," returned the old lady approvingly. "But you haven't told me yet what your name is?" "Edith Dunlee." "I knew 'twas Dunlee that's a Scotch name; but I didn't know about the Edith. Well, Edith, so you've been to see the gold mine? Pokerish place, isn't it?
"No, I never, I'm sure I never. I walked in the road right straight along. Oh, mamma, if I've lost that watch 'twill break my heart. But I'll pay papa for it, you see if I don't! I'll save every penny I get and put it together and pay papa!" Mrs. Dunlee did not reply for a moment; she took time to reflect. Jimmy was a dear boy, but very heedless.
As they entered the dining-room, Jimmy squared his shoulders and would not look toward Nate's table; and Nate, who had been severely reproved by his parents, never once raised his eyes from his plate. No one felt very happy. Jimmy's new suit was ruined; and Mr. Dunlee had already learned that it would cost ten dollars to restore the tile chimney. Nor was this all.
I mean to bring her up as well as I know how; but what are you going to do with a girl that can't sense the ten commandments?" "What indeed!" laughed Mr. Dunlee. "You see she's naturally light-fingered. Yes, you are, Mag, you needn't deny it. Those red claws of yours are just pickers and stealers." Here Edith called attention to Mag's nest on the wall, and they all admired it; and Mrs.
At one of these, when the audience was watching a flight of rockets, Katharine heard two women not far away talking together. One of them asked: "Where's that little Dunlee girl, the one that keeps the play-school?" "Over there in the corner," replied the other, "She hasn't any hat on. She's sitting beside the girl with a cat in her lap." "Oh, is that the one? So young as that?
It was now nearly six o'clock, and savory odors from the kitchen mingled with the balmy breath of the flowers stealing in from the lawn. The Dunlee party had barely time for hasty toilets when the gong sounded for dinner. The Templeton dining-room was large and held several tables. The Dunlees had the longest of these, the one near the west window.
Bab doubted this, but Lucy was proud to think how much Jimmy knew. "Six minutes past five," said she, looking at the watch again. "It takes these little hands just as long to go round this little face as it takes a clock's hands to go round a clock's face. How funny!" "Not funny at all," said Jimmy. "They're made that way. But be careful, Lucy Dunlee, or you'll drop that watch.
That mine up there is all played out, and Uncle James has told us so ever so many times. Didn't you hear him? The shaft is more than half full of muddy water. I'd like to see you going down in a bucket!" "Well, then, Jimmy Dunlee, what shall we do at Castle Cliff?" "We've brought a tent with us, and for one thing I'm going to camp out," replied Jimmy. "That's a grand thing, they say." "Don't!
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