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Daun kept his Plauen Chasm, his few square miles of ground beyond; the rest of Saxony was Friedrich's, as heretofore. Daun, for his own share, went to Vienna this Winter; in need of surgery, and other things. The population there is rather disposed to be grumbly on its once heroic Fabius; wishes the Fabius were a little less cunctatory.
But she did go there, though it was just about to be closed up, and when she got home with the cabbage leaves for supper, she told about the surprise party. Then Sammie wished he had gone to the store, instead of remaining at home to make a whistle out of a carrot. "I never had anything nice like that happen to me," said Sammie, in just the least bit of a grumbly voice. And, what do you think?
When she was ready nobody could have been prettier, but she still could not help looking sad. Meanwhile the Duchess Grumbly was also occupied in attiring herself. She had one of her shoe heels made an inch or so higher than the other, that she might not limp so much, and put in a cunningly made glass eye in the place of the one she had lost. She dyed her red hair black, and painted her face.
Anything of that kind would be severely dealt with, and he would not hesitate to put any man in irons for the rest of the voyage who didn't jump to his duty at the word. And, when Captain Sol had finished his speech, the men all shouted out a cheer for him and another cheer for Captain Jonathan and Captain Jacob. And they weren't grumbly any more but they were glad.
Not that she had ever been unkind; only grumbly but never unkind so that the boys and I could be afraid of her, and when mother was with us, mother who was always cheerful, it didn't matter much if Pierson did grumble.
'Rubbish, do you call it, Madam Grumbly? cried the King. 'Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms. 'Well, said she, 'you must know that all those casks are full of gold and jewels, and if you like to marry me it shall all be yours. Now the King loved money more than anything else in the world, so he cried joyfully: 'Marry you? why with all my heart! to-morrow if you like.
We were so cold that finally the whole regiment had to dismount and proceed on foot in the hope of warming up a bit. We were all, in the end, sad, cross, and grumbly. You had spoiled us all at Huiry and Voisins. For my part I longed to curse someone for having ordered such a change of base as this, in such weather.
When the horse which the Duchess was to ride appeared beside Graciosa's, it looked no better than an old cart horse, and as to their trappings, there was simply no comparison between them, as the Princess's saddle and bridle were one glittering mass of diamonds. When they met the Duchess Grumbly she was seated in an open carriage trying in vain to look dignified.
"That's because you've got poor eyes," spoke up Jumper the Hare. "He certainly has a tail. It isn't much of a one, but it is a tail. I know because I've seen it many times." "Woof, woof," said a deep, rumbly, grumbly voice. "What's going on here? Who is it hasn't any tail?" At the sound of that deep, rumbly, grumbly voice it looked for a few minutes as if school would be broken up for that day.
And though the scout was now in its third week, and things had been said and done by "Grumbly" Garrett that set other men to talking, not a word had come from "Coyote." But it soon transpired that if Graham wouldn't speak of his troop commander pro tem., neither did he speak to him, save when occasion required.
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