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"It does seem so, but it's just as you look at it, Edith. Cats are a sight of company. I didn't care so much about them or about birds either when my husband was alive and my little children, but now " Again she paused, and this time she did not go on again. Some one out of doors laughed; it was Jimmy Dunlee, and the mocking-bird took up the merry sound and echoed it to perfection.
He admired the view from the mountain, and I don't blame him, do you? He wanted a nice, quiet place where he could read and write; that was why he came here. He has been here every summer for years." "Well," said Mr. Dunlee, "if you call this an air-castle I must say it is the most solid one I ever heard of! It doesn't look dreamy at all. Why, an earthquake could hardly shake it."
If Bab could have kept her hat on! But she couldn't, and the moment it came off they all cried out: "Why-ee, Barbara!" and turned away to laugh. If Mrs. McQuilken had been there she would have said the child looked "as if she was possessed of the fox." "The little goosies! Let them enjoy it!" whispered Mrs. Hale to Mrs. Dunlee.
Dunlee presently, when the child was once more respectably clad, and was walking down to dinner between herself and Aunt Vi, "but my little son, what could have possessed you to climb a roof? Was that a nice thing to do?" "No, mamma, of course not. But 'twas all Nate Pollard's fault. Nate stumped me to it and I took the stump." "What do you mean?"
Dunlee patted him on the head, saying: "Maybe we'll find the watch yet, my son. And anyway, I know Jimmum didn't mean to lose it." Then he sat down to read, and Jimmy gazed at him reverently. The sunshine about his head seemed almost like a halo, and the boy thought of the angels, and wondered if they could possibly be any better than papa! "Papa is the best man! Never was cross in his life.
The children wandered about, trying one bench after another to see which they liked best. "You would think they were getting settled for life," whispered Nate to Jimmy. The "little two" chose a place near the west window and began at once to write on their slates. "I'm scared of Miss Dunlee," wrote Aunt Lucy. "Stop making me laugh," replied the niece.
O laissez les tranquille! Ils se retournerons, Chacun sa queue apres lui." Mrs. Dunlee and Kyzie were just behind the children, and while Bab was repeating the verse Kyzie said in a low tone: "Oh, mamma, let me walk with you all the way, please. There's something I want to talk about." She looked so earnest that Mrs. Dunlee wondered not a little what it was her eldest daughter had to say.
Friday night passed and most of Saturday; and though diligent search was made, the watch was not found. "Poor papa!" said Kyzie. "He doesn't say much; but how sober he looks! Grandma Dunlee gave him that watch, Jimmy, when he was a young man; and he did love it so!" "I know it. Oh, dear, how can he stand it?" responded jimmy, who had been deeply touched from the first by his father's forbearance.
As the little party walked on, Miss Katharine turned her head more than once for another look at the schoolhouse. "Wouldn't it be fun, Edy, to teach school in there and ring that 'lin-lan-lone bell' to call in the scholars? I'd make you study botany harder'n you ever did before." "No, thank you, Miss Dunlee," replied Edith, courtesying. "You'll not get me to worrying over botany.
"Well, Miss Dunlee," Kyzie liked extremely to be called Miss Dunlee, "well, Miss Dunlee, you see, the boys keep a-plaguing me. And when they plague me I have to cry." "Oh, fie, don't you do it! If I were a little black-eyed boy about your age I'd laugh, and I'd say to those boys: 'You needn't try to plague me; you just can't do it. The more you try, the more I'll laugh."
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