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'Well, said the King, 'since you are so kind as to ask me, I prefer champagne to anything else. Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cask twice, and out came at least a thousand crowns. 'What's the meaning of this? said she smiling. Then she tapped the next cask, and out came a bushel of gold pieces.
There might be some little mice." "Is mice the same as mouses?" said Fixie; and when Bee nodded, "Why don't you say mouses then?" he asked, "it's a much samer word." "But I didn't make the words," said Bee, "one has to use them the way that's counted right." But Fixie seemed rather grumbly and cross.
Sometimes the others used to get grumbly when we were shut up so long, but it never seemed to make any difference in him. "I told you when I wrote from Denver that he was called 'Straight Harry, because he always acted straightforwardly, and now I know him I can quite understand their calling him so. One feels somehow that one could rely upon his always being the same, whatever happened.
They were to see still more within the compass of a day's march, but they had seen enough in their two weeks' comradeship to give them confidence in the young officer they never felt for their own and only "Grumbly," who, with all his experience, would often blunder, and Grumbly's blunders told on his troop, otherwise they might not have cared.
Everybody said she was the happiest Princess in the world. Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly. She was more frightful than tongue can tell; her hair was red as fire, and she had but one eye, and that not a pretty one!
'Alas! who would not be vexed? answered she, 'for the King intends to marry again, and has chosen for his new bride my enemy, the hideous Duchess Grumbly. 'Oh, well! answered the nurse, 'you must remember that you are a Princess, and are expected to set a good example in making the best of whatever happens. You must promise me not to let the Duchess see how much you dislike her.
"Aunt Emeline!" responded Nan, and she sighed. "I'll have to wipe my feet three times every time I come into the house once!" went on Bert, in a grumbly voice. "She'll always be looking at my hands to see if they're clean and and Oh, I don't want Aunt Emeline to come!" he exclaimed. "She never likes to have me run," said Nan, and her voice was gloomy.
There was no sociability at his own. "It is too bad," Major Berry had confided to Connell the third day out. "It just so happened that 'Old Grumbly' was the one captain without a subaltern when Mr. Graham reported for duty with us, and your fine young classmate had to take the place of one of the absentees. The colonel couldn't help himself. Grumbly is a good soldier in his way, Mr.
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