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"We ought to have a merry-go-'round," said Bunny one day. "I'll make you one," offered Ben Hall, the strange boy, who was still working on grandpa's farm. "Oh, will you! How?" asked Bunny. Ben took some planks and nailed them together, criss-cross, like an X. Then he put them on a box, and on the ends of the planks that stuck out he fastened some wagon wheels.
"And besides all that," Florence went on, undisturbed, "why, you generally keep kind of snorting, or somep'n, and then making all those noises in your neck. You were doin' it at grandpa's last Sunday dinner because every time there wasn't anybody talking, why, everybody could hear you plain as everything, and you ought to've seen grandpa look at you!
"Didn't we get up a Punch and Judy show, when I found Aunt Lu's diamond ring?" "Yes, but that wasn't as big as a circus." "Well, we need only have a little circus show, Sue." "Where could we have it, Bunny?" The little boy thought for a moment. "In grandpa's barn," he answered. "There's lots of room. It would be just fine." "Would you and me be all the circus, Bunny?" "Oh, no.
Now she had to pack her big valise, brush Grandpa's hair, put on his "dicky" and cravat, and adjust her own bonnet and shawl. Willy was privately afraid she would not be ready when the village coach came, and so they would miss the train, but he said nothing. He stood patiently in the door and looked down the street whence the coach would come, and listened to the bustle in Grandma's room.
Me an' the Kid started to break for the foothills, but he set me to makin' bandages, an' sent the Kid after some more water. We was losin' our age fast, an' Bill's voice sounded like grandpa's. He said it was a corkin' bad sprain, but he tied it up an' wet down the bandages; an' then he sent me to headquarters after the spring-wagon, an' the Kid to Danders for the doctor.
But the periods between the contributions were so long, and the amount of fruit consumed was so small, that Johnnie was never even a quarter satisfied except at one of his Barmecide feasts. Grandpa's oatmeal and milk finished, Johnnie urged the prunes upon him. "Oo, lookee at the watermelon!" he cried. "The dandy, big watermelon! on ice!"
Softly she crawled out of bed, slipped on her bath robe, which was on a chair near her bed, and then, dragging two blankets after her, she and Bunny went softly down the stairs. Carefully Bunny opened the door, and he and Sue went out on the side porch, and down across the lawn to where, in the moonlight, stood grandpa's tent.
I'm a-goin' back an' have a look at that place where I got 'im. Kind o' queer they left the kid out there in the buzz-wagon; mighty queer, now's I think of ut. Little house back from the road; lots o' trees an' bushes in front. Didn't seem to be no lights. He keeps talkin' about Chris'mas at his grandpa's. Folks must 'a' been goin' to take th' kid somewheres fer Chris'mas.
The voluminous ribbon bows behind her ears were mostly in evidence, as she bent her face over her doll in congratulation. "Left Mr. Evringham in town, did you?" he asked. "Yes, he was busy, and in a hurry to get to his office. Grandpa's such an important man." "Is he?" asked Zeke. "Why ye es! Didn't you know it?" "I surmised something of the kind. So Dr. Ballard looked after you."
Bodin was sending her daughter, Stella, some little overalls made over for the twins from their grandpa's and a bottle of home made cough medicine "and one of my first squash pies for Al. And here's a pie for your trouble, Hank, and a few of these cookies you said you like."
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