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And so you has run away, and you belong to the circus, I guess. Why, you are in your circus dresses." "See my bow and arrow," said Diana. "I is the gweat Diana; I is the gweatest huntwess in all the world." "To be sure; to be sure!" said the man. "And I am Orion," said the boy, seeing that Diana's words were having a good effect. "You can watch me up in the sky on starful nights.
Even the thought of the strawberries and cream, and the milk and cake, could not compensate for the look on Mother Bridget's face. Diana, however, was not easily alarmed. "The stuff in the pot smells vedy good," she said, sniffing. "I could shoot lots of hares, 'cos I is the gweatest huntwess in all the world. I is Diana. Did you ever hear of Diana, ugly old woman?"
"I have often," drawled Western; "there are the gweatest number of them in New Orleans." "Ah, but New Orleans is a different place; such a thing never occurred in Philadelphia." "Well, let us cweate a pwecedent, then. The boy wites wemarkably well, and will, no doubt, suit us exactly. It will be a chawity to take him. We need not care what others say evewybody knows who we are and what we are?"
"What a silly little boy you is!" she said. "We has come for most solemn, 'portant business. I is Diana the gweat Diana what lived years and years ago and you is Orion. I is the gweatest huntwess in all the world, and I's going to shoot Aunt Jane and Miss Wamsay. Now, come 'long, Orion, and let's look for the bow and arrow."
I's sossy," she continued, looking full at Mother Rodesia as she spoke, "that you big, big woman told such awfu' lies. But, now that we has come, we'll take a little hare soup. Orion, you stand near me, and don't any of you dirty peoples come up too close, 'cos I can't abear dirty peoples. I is the gweatest shot in all the world, and Orion, he's a giant."
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