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"Yes, yes, and I have made a riddle;" cried Hunne, putting in his oar, "Now guess mine, Dora. My first you can eat but not drink" Rolf cut the little boy's charade ruthlessly in two with, "Oh, get away with your old riddle, Hunne; it is no riddle at all! Now listen, Dora;
One day Dora made a new riddle for Hunne; for indeed his "nut-cracker" one had become rather an old story; yet he couldn't bear to give up riddle-giving. To his unspeakable joy this new riddle had a triumphant experience, quite unprecedented in the family annals no one could guess it. This time nobody could turn him off with, "Oh, go away with that same old charade."
But she did not wake up, except to find that her plate had been loaded with good things, so very real, that all anxiety passed away, and she realized that she was living, and living remarkably well, into the bargain. "Do eat your cake, or you will be the last to get through," said Hunne, "see, Dora, Jule and I have eaten four.
She was sitting with Wili and Lili in the school room, patiently trying to get them to finish their examples; but they were both so absent-minded, that she was sure that they were planning something extraordinarily mischievous. In rushed the little Hunne: "A riddle, Miss Han " "No, positively no! This is not the proper time to bring me things to guess."
"Rolf, Rolf, a riddle! guess! try!" and Lili held up a strip of paper and rattled it before Rolfs eyes, repeating, "Guess, guess, Rolf." So the riddle-maker was now caught in his own meshes. "Well, at least leave me room to guess in," cried he, striking about him with his arms to make room. "You can't guess anything," cried little Hunne contemptuously, "I am going to Jule he knows."
Birkenfeld, and round about them were the six children. Her timidity came back again, at seeing the parents, for she had expected to see only the children. She stood hesitating, and glanced shyly at the company. Little Hunne caught sight of her, and slipping down from his seat, ran toward her with outstretched arms, crying out,
"Well, I am glad that Dora is coming," said Hunne, "for I can go to her Saturdays, when all the chairs are standing on their heads, and no one else will have me." Last of all Jule asked, "Hunne, I want to get some good out of Dora, too, what shall it be?" "I know," said the child, after thinking awhile, "she can help you get off your riding-boots you know there weren't enough of us, last time."
And on this particular Saturday, the child had been wandering about the passages among the sofas and chairs which, having been put out there during the weekly sweeping, looked as restless and out-of-place as Hunne himself. He spent a long time looking for his mother and he found her at last up-stairs in the attic, but she sent him down at once, for she was busy with the clothes for the wash.
Little Hunne, however, who had listened very attentively to his mother's story, put his arms lovingly around her, and said, "Don't be so sad, mamma dear! I will go to America as soon as I am big enough, and bring your Lili back with me; that I will!" Rolf and Wili had drawn near, to hear the story, and presently Rolf said, looking thoughtfully at a strip of paper which he held in his hand,
The twins and Hunne, and even Rolf, were soon tired of waiting for Dora to come back, and went calling and searching everywhere for her; but they could not find her; she had quite disappeared. In fact, Paula had taken her all round the garden, and then up to her own room. There the two girls sat and talked, and talked, about all sorts of things.
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