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Then Angel put the question, and was answered with equal promptitude. It was The Seraph's turn. With an insinuating smile he said: "If you are a gennelman dog wag your tail fwee times." But before there was time for so much as one wag, Mary Ellen caught the too-eager tail in a restraining grasp. "Now have done wid your nonsinse," she commanded.
Angel and I had donned old jerseys and The Seraph a clean holland pinafore, against which he pressed an empty treacle tin where a solitary worm reared an anxious head against the encircling gloom. "I've got a worm," he gasped, gleefully, as the pony, released at last, jerked us almost off our seats. "He's nice an' fat, an' he's quite clean, for I've washed him fwee times. He's as tame as anyfing.
"Please, sir," I said, politely, "this nice old man has been turned out by his grandsons, and he's on his way to town, where he's got some kind grandsons " "Fwee of 'em," put in The Seraph. "And we were wondering," I hurried on, "if you'd give him a lift that far." "I expect you're tired out," said the Bishop, kindly, turning to Granfa.
"By George!" said the young man, "you made the claret flow!" "It took two of them to hold me or I'd have got back at him," said Angel. "It took fwee o' them to hold me," piped The Seraph, "or I'd have punched evwybody!" "How did it start?" enquired the young man. "That biggest one asked me my name," replied Angel, "and before I thought I'd said, 'Angel, and that started them.
The Seraph, important, but sleepy, climbed over me, so that he might be in the middle, and then began, in a husky little voice: "Once upon a time there was fwee bwothers, all vwey nice, but the youngest was the bwavest an' stwongest of the fwee. He was as stwong as two bulls, an' he'd kill a dwagon before bweakfast, an' never be cocky about it " Angel and I groaned in unison.
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