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"O, papa!" said Dotty, springing into his arms, while her sisters seized him by the coat-sleeves, "you ought to have a birthday to-night, we've got such a splendid supper!" "Sthop!" cried Katie. "I's talking. Cake, and verjerves, and f'owers, and butter!" "And Susy's been practising the 'Blue Violet's Carol," said Prudy. "Yes, her packus, uncle Ed'ard!"
Jennie went softly across the room, and laid her hand upon the sketches. "Calling us to order, are you, Jennie?" Constance laughed. "Come, then, show us your pictures, and tell us about them." Eagerly the girl seized the sketch in her fingers. "Peety," she said, holding it tenderly up before them. "F'owers, twees, water."
In making the bouquet I enjoyed the benefit of my nephews' assistance and counsel and took enforced part in conversation which flowers suggested. "Ocken Hawwy," said Toddie, "ish heaven all like this, wif pretty f'owers? Cos I don't see what ze angels ever turns out for if 'tis." "Uncle Harry," said Budge, "when the leaves all go up and down and wriggle around so, are they talking to the wind?"
"I'd rather listen to your mother." "They are tired of me," Margaret told him. "We are not ti-yard," her small son enunciated carefully, "but you said you had to fix the f'owers." "Well, I have. May I turn them over to you, Derry?" "For a minute. But you must come back."
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