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"My eyes k'ite fwighten you, poor little boy," said Diana. "Well, let's wun; let's get to the garding. Why, it's the day mother went away to the angels, and we has got no lessons. Where's Iris? I want Iris." "So do I," said Orion. "Oh, Di! what is to become of us? You frighten me." "K'ite fwighten poor little boy," echoed Diana. "I's sossy, but I can't help it. I's giddy in my head.
"Where is father, Sally?" asked Nan, as that functionary appeared, blinking owlishly, but utterly repudiating the idea of sleep. "He went down the garding, miss, when the gentlemen cleared, bein' a little flustered by the goin's on. Shall I fetch him in?" asked Sally, as irreverently as if her master were a bag of meal. "No, we will go ourselves."
"Do you know this thing, this child?" he asks. "Deputy," says Durdles, with a nod. "Is that its his name?" "Deputy," assents Durdles, whereupon the small boy feels called upon to speak for himself. "I'm man-servant up at the Travellers Twopenny in Gas Works Garding," he explains. "All us man-servants at Travellers Lodgings is named Deputy, but I never pleads to no name, mind yer.
Again there was a sound below. Brooke's song had roused the guard. Talbot gave a wild start. "They're coming!" she gasped, in a tone of horror. "They're coming at last. They won't wait!" "Pooh!" said Brooke, whose voice by this time had regained its old careless ring; and he whined on: "Cats don't come at half-past eight Tap-tap-tappiug at the garding gate!"
"So you is," said Diana, laughing and then checking herself. "Is it far to " "To where, Di?" "To the garding," said Diana; "to the dead-house where Rub-a-Dub is. Let's go and sit on the little bench and see the dead 'uns let's count 'em; I wonder how many there is!" She stopped suddenly and gazed around her. "What do you mean?" said Orion, in some alarm. "We are nowhere near the garden.
'Posies, I said, says Betsey; 'beautiful ones they were, too, the best in the garding. I heard her tell Mr. Blodgett it would be a pity if that sick boy couldn't have some flowers, and she knew the Pepper children were crazy about 'em, so she twisted 'em in the string around the parcel, and there they stood up and looked fine, I tell you, as they drove away. So, Polly!"
Your garding seeds is fine, and if I should sow 'em on the rock of Gibralter probly I should raise a good mess of garding sass. You air honest in your dealins. You air quiet and don't distarb nobody. For all this I givs you credit. But your religion is small pertaters, I must say.
Them jack-rabbits et up my little garding patch; the coyotes gathered at nights and sung me selections from the ghost dance; the Chinamen sprung every con-cussed trick on me that a man who wears his whiskers down his back can think of; and day and night alike, Mrs. Scraggs, from one to eighteen, informed me what I'd ort to do.
"There'll be little boys and girls to play with," pursued Nurse, trying to heighten the picture; "and flowers and birds and such and medders, and a garding, and all manner." But nothing could rouse Ruth to more than a very languid interest in these delights.
Love was the whole day's work in the garding of Eden befo' man got too industrious, an' it's all the work I do, an' I hope I do it well." "Now what did Roxy tell you about Meshach Milburn and Judge Custis?"
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