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Updated: June 17, 2025
Go and get that speech betther; I see by your face, you haven't it; off wid you, and get a patch upon your breeches, your little knees are through them, though 'tisn't by prayin' you've wore them, any how, you little hop-o'-my-thumb you, wid a voice like a rat in a thrap; off wid you, man alive!"
Now the Ogre had seven daughters, who were all very young like Hop-o'-my-thumb and his brothers. These young Ogresses had fair skins, because they fed on raw meat like their father; but they had small grey eyes, quite round, and sunk in their heads, hooked noses, wide mouths, and very long sharp teeth standing a great way off each other.
By the way, if you follow the eastward track from here, you will pass close to what the children say is the very house of the ogre that Hop-o'-my-Thumb visited, and ate his little daughters with the crowns of gold." "Oh, father! ate his little daughters!
"'How you do tremble! whispered Hop-o'-my-thumb; 'are you cold? This inquiry received no answer; and after some minutes he spoke again. 'I say, how very pretty they look! don't they? "But for some reason or other, Melchior seemed to have lost his voice; but he stooped down and kissed both the girls very gently, and then the two brothers crept back along the passage to the 'barracks.
We'll not waste a pound o' powder in capturing that prize!" He turned suddenly to me "As I live by bread, 'tis that bragging young dandy-prat hop-o'-my-thumb Ben Gillam of Boston Town!" "Ben Gillam!" I was thinking of my assailant in the woods. "Ben was tall. The pirate, who came carving at me, was small."
They knocked at the door, which was opened by a very good-natured-looking lady, who asked what brought them there. Hop-o'-my-thumb told her that they were poor children, who had lost their way in the forest, and begged that she would give them a bed till morning.
The jays bossed the woodpeckers, the woodpeckers bossed the chickadees, and the chickadees bossed the kinglet. Sometimes in my absence a crow would swoop down and boss the whole crew and carry off the meat. The kinglet was the least of all, a sort of "hop-o'-my-thumb" bird. He became quite tame, and one day alighted upon my arm as I stood leaning against the tree.
"I'll give you a box on the ears, young gentleman," broke out the amazed Doubleday. "You're forgetting yourself. Go on with your work. Now then, young hop-o'-my-thumb," said he, addressing himself to Smith, "what do you want?" Smith solemnly produced a letter, which he exhibited to the senior clerk. "Oh, you're after the place too, are you, young bull's-eye?"
Trevors said I was to give it to them," said Crowdy. "I can't be taking orders off'n every hop-o'-my-thumb like that college kid." "Then Masters did tell you?" "Sure, he told me," said Crowdy in surly defiance. "But if I was to listen to everything the likes of him says " Judith's eyes were fairly snapping.
And all the White Wyandottes took up the cry: "Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut you'll get it." Jehosophat wished he were as small as Hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all. But he had one friend left little Wienerwurst, who frisked up to him just then, wagging his tail. He didn't scold Jehosophat at all, partly because he was so often up to mischief himself.
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