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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Grandpa," they heard him scream a moment later. "Hurry! Come quick! Here's my kite! The Lib'ty Bonds kite!" Sure enough, there it was, just as it had caught in the tree the missing kite. And still pasted to the strips of wood were Grandpa's two five-hundred-dollar Liberty Bonds! "No wonder we couldn't find 'em!" cried Sunny Boy, dancing with excitement. "I knew I saw it fall in a tree!
"So you see," he went on, "all I had to do was to look for Anna Belle." "And you nearly sat on her," declared the child. "I deny it," returned the doctor gravely. "I deny it. You weren't looking. For one second I was afraid you were crying." "Crying! What would I be crying for, coming to have a lovely visit at grandpa's!"
Every morning of her life Grandpa played this little trick upon her from some corner, and Christina never forgot to scream in terror, and Grandpa's amusement was never abated. She slapped him for frightening her, adding hugely to his enjoyment, and ran on into the kitchen.
Each bridge was to be lighted by electricity, and "I'll push Grandpa's wheel chair all across the top o' N'York!" he declared. Father Pat did not laugh at this think. On the contrary, he thought it both practical and grand.
He opened his door softly, and went down stairs. He did not dare unlock the front door, for grandpa's room was just across the hall, and grandpa always slept with one eye open. He crept through the kitchen, and found himself in the shed. Was ever anything more fortunate? The outer door was open. He took his hat from the nail, and just then a plaintive "mew" greeted his ear. "Hush!
"Let me think," whispered Jimmie, quite bravely, and he put his head under his wing, so he could be quiet and think better. "Ah, I have it!" he cried out. "Come with me, girls!" So they stepped softly from under the burdock leaves, those three duck children did, and ran to grandpa's house as fast as they could, leaving the bad foxes in the woods.
They trembled so that the leaves shook as if the wind was blowing them, and when Jimmie got a little quiet he looked out, and what do you suppose he saw? Why two mean, wicked, sly old foxes, who were getting ready to go to grandpa's house and eat him up, and Mamma and Papa Wibblewobble up, and probably Uncle Wiggily Longears, too; who knows? "Oh, isn't this awful?" asked Alice in a whisper.
Having borrowed Grandpa's Grand Army hat, Johnnie greeted her, first with a snappy salute; after that he bowed and bared his head as if to the Queen or the Princess Buddir al Buddoor all this as per an illustration in his book which showed a scout uncovering to an elderly lady in a three-cornered shawl.
Running to the stove, he wet down the fire with some hot water out of the teakettle, put away his book, brought out his own quilt to cover Grandpa's knees, swiftly laid Big Tom's place at the table, cut some bread, made the tea, then knocked on the bedroom door to explain that supper was ready on the oilcloth, but that he had to go out.
Missy shrank a little closer into the haven of grandpa's knees. And grandpa, in the severe voice that made the other children stand in awe of him, said: "That will do, Peter!" But Peter, unawed, went on: "I know, grandpa but she's such a funny little dingbat! And now, that she's turned pious " Grandpa interrupted him with a gesture of the hand. "I said that'd do, Peter.
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