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"If you do," she said to Grizzel, "put a picture of yourself and a cherry tree on the tin. It will look much prettier than 'Campbell's Jams'!" This made the children laugh, and they went in to their second breakfast feeling very cheerful and what Mollie called "pleased with life". The lazy inventor made his appearance halfway through the meal, looking still rather sleepy.
As she watched, a door opened in the side of the hut and a man came out, swinging a billy-can in his hand. Suddenly Grizzel caught her breath. Where had she heard someone say that that hut was a tiny refreshment-bar, where a man could go in and get boiling water for his tea that everlasting tea which the Australian drinks at any and every hour of the day?
"It is past your supper-time, my dear," said Miss Grizzel. "Go up at once to your room, and Dorcas shall bring some supper to you. Late hours are bad for young people." Griselda obediently wished her aunts good-night, and went quietly upstairs. But once out of sight, at the first landing, she changed her pace.
"The day after to-morrow to say that she will be able to resume her studies the day after to-morrow oh yes, certainly. It would be very well to send a note to good Mr. Kneebreeches, my dear Grizzel." "It is such a satisfaction to consult together about what we do. I was only a little afraid of being hard upon the child, but as you agree with me, I have no longer any misgiving."
Lessons were very well done that day, and Mr. Kneebreeches' report was all that could be wished. "I am particularly gratified," he remarked to Miss Grizzel, "by the intelligence and interest Miss Griselda displays with regard to the study of astronomy, which I have recently begun to give her some elementary instruction in.
Sometimes we find manna too, lying underneath the trees, but I don't like it much. I am glad I am not a Child of Israel," she added; "I don't like that old Moses. Do you?" "I haven't thought about him very much," Mollie confessed; "I suppose he was all right in his own way." "He was so fond of Thou shalt not," Grizzel objected, "and I can't bear thou shalt nots.
If the stone hadn't plopped into the middle of my my little game which was almost another miracle when you consider the size of the field the ring would have been lost for ever." "It's a miraculous ring," Grizzel explained, "and it brings luck. I expect you'll be ever so lucky now. But how did you know where to look for Hugh?" she added rather anxiously. Mr.
There was nothing to be done but to wait for twelve o'clock. And, after all, she did not wait for twelve o'clock, for just about half-past eleven, Miss Grizzel's voice was heard calling to her to put on her hat and cloak quickly, and come out to walk up and down the terrace with her. "It is fine just now," said Miss Grizzel, "but there is a prospect of rain before long.
The next evening was Saturday evening, and the thieves wanted to steal a fat ram for their Sunday dinner; and well they might, for they had fasted many days. But they wouldn't have Grizzel with them at any price.
"A cuckoo in a cage," repeated her elder aunt, Miss Grizzel; "what is the child talking about?" "In a cage!" echoed Miss Tabitha, "a cuckoo in a cage!" "There is a cuckoo somewhere in the house," said Griselda; "I heard it in the night. It couldn't have been out-of-doors, could it? It would be too cold." The aunts looked at each other with a little smile. "So like her grandmother," they whispered.
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