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She climbed aboard the boat, grumbling to herself, and proceeded to dress without further delay. "For goodness' sake, Tommy, what is the matter?" demanded Harriet, sitting up in bed, rubbing her blinking eyes. "Did you fall into the lake again?" "I gueth I had a bath thith morning," answered Tommy. "An impromptu plunge, I should call it," answered Harriet smiling.
They have been worthily won and will prove a splendid addition to the already heavy necklace of beads you have earned." "I gueth we'll need a chain bearer inthtead of a torch bearer if we keep on earning beadth," suggested Grace. The two girls were requested to step out. They did so, posing demurely before the blazing campfire. Mrs.
"I gueth my mamma wants me at home," said Charlie, yawning. Prudy and Dotty went with him; and in her eagerness concerning the ducks' eggs, Dotty quite forgot the secret draughts of milk she and Katie had quaffed under the acorn-tree, calling it nectar. But this was not the last of it. Dotty continued to go to Mrs. Gray's every night with the milk.
"Hello there, Tommy, what are you standing on?" called Harriet, puffing and blowing as she pushed a canvas-bound pack along ahead of her. "I don't know. I gueth it mutht be the automobile top. It ith nithe and thpringy." "Please stay there until I get back. I wish to look it over. If you can, I wish you would find the rear end of the car, so I may locate it exactly."
With the front cabin door closed the cabin was a comfortable and cosy place in which to sit. But the cabin floor was acquiring an unpleasant habit of rising and falling. Tommy's face, ordinarily pale, had grown ghastly, but she pluckily kept her discomfort to herself. As a matter of fact the little girl was suffering from a mild attack of seasickness. "I I gueth I'll go to bed," she stammered.
You will be much better off than in the cabin, where the air is close and the others are suffering." "I'm going to, thank you." Tommy stood braced against the cabin, her keen little eyes observing the now serious face of the skipper. "I gueth thomething ith going to happen," she observed. "Don't tell the others," cautioned Harriet, with a warning shake of the head. "I don't intend to.
"Now, if he had that motor that's doubled up under the car we ran into the ditch, he could make some time." "That boat is sailing much faster than you think," answered Harriet. "You will see when it gets opposite us how fast it is moving. It is moving so fast that I can't make myself believe it is our boat." "I gueth we'll wait till it getth here," decided Tommy, which voiced the feelings of all.
"Hush, Katie," said the older children; "do look at his hair; it curls almost as tight as dandelion stems." "Thee the dimple in my chin!" "Which chin?" said Prudy; "you've got three of them." "And the wuffle wound my neck! Gueth what we've got over to my houthe? Duckth." "O, ducks?" cried Dotty; "that's what I want to make me happy.
"We did," he replied very gravely, "and we are not going to, are we?" Tommy shook her head. "Not before to-morrow, I gueth. I'm too tired to fight. Did I furnithh you with exthitement enough for one night?" "Will you listen to her?" laughed Crazy Jane. "Little Tommy Thompson fell off the mountain to furnish us with excitement. Of course we are satisfied.
"Gueth not, Marm," he lisped back cheerily. "I never cared for shooth mythelf." He was always shouting across the way to inquire if "<i>thith</i> wath hot enough or cold enough to thute <i>me</i>?" As if I had expressed a strong desire for phenomenal extremes of temperature. One morning he suddenly departed.
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