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"Are you glad to see me again, Eliza?" asked Marjorie, flinging herself into the arms of the stout Irishwoman. "Glad is it, Miss Midget? Faith, I'm thot glad I kin hardly see ye fer gladness! Ye've grow'd, but I do say not so much as I expicted! But Masther King, now he's as high as the church shpire!
"Well, he'll scratch his head and stare at that, for a space. He'll hum and haw a little to get breath, for he never thought of that afore, since he grow'd up; but he's no fool, I can tell you, and he'll out with his mould, run an answer and be ready for you in no time. He'll say, 'They don't require none. Sir. They have no redundant population. They are an outlet themselves.
Its jurisdiction extended as trade and commerce developed and railways appeared on the scene, and gradually it was divided into departments, and so the Board of Trade came into being. Like Topsy it "grow'd."
"What cheer, Joseph, what cheer!" "What cheer! Billy why, I didn't know you, you've grow'd so much," shouted the master of the Morning Star, whose middle-sized, but broad and powerful frame was surmounted by a massive countenance, with good humour in the twinkling eyes, and kindly chaff often in the goodly-sized mouth.
"I oughtn't to go, Lizzie," she said. "Shucks! Think of all you'll have to tell us when you get home. Don't be a cry baby, child." Promptly at nine Charlie and Kent whirled up to the gate in a carryall. The driver was the same man who had moved the Dudley family five years before. He greeted Lydia with a grin. "You've grow'd some, eh, Lydia? Where's the rest of the women folks?"
"Yes, I've grow'd," retorted Billy, "an' I mean to go on growin' till I'm big enough to wallop you." "Your cheek has been growin' too, Billy." "So it has, but nothin' like to your jaw, Joseph." "What luck?" shouted David as the Morning Star was passing on. "Fifteen trunks. What have you got?" The skipper held up his hand to acknowledge the information, and shouted "nineteen," in reply.
"You're a game one," he returned, shaking his head at me with a deliberate affection, at once most unintelligible and most exasperating; "I'm glad you've grow'd up, a game one! But don't catch hold of me. You'd be sorry arterwards to have done it." I relinquished the intention he had detected, for I knew him! Even yet I could not recall a single feature, but I knew him!
He rubbed a little of the salve on the end of the dog, and a noo tail grow'd on next mornin'!" "Gammon!" ejaculated Tom Riggles. "True, I assure ye, as was proved by the fact that he afterwards rubbed a little of the salve on the end of the tail, and a noo dog growed on it in less than a week!" "H'm!
He was engaged in searching among some scraps of leather under his chair, and kept on talking to the imaginary person. Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted. "I wuz fixin' up a w'ip fer a little chap," he continued, with a sigh, "but, bless grashus! 'fo' I kin git 'er done de little chap done grow'd up twel he know mo'n I duz."
'Nobody as I knows on, replied Topsy, with a laugh. 'Spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody ever made me. 'Do you know how to sew? asked Miss Ophelia, quite shocked. 'No, missis. 'What can you do? What did you do for your master and mistress? 'Fetch water, and wash dishes, and clean knives, and wait on folks. 'Well, now, Topsy, I'm going to show you just how my bed is to be made.
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