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Updated: June 26, 2025
"They wanted to come this year awfully; they said 'Oh grandpapa, do let us go with you and Jappy, and " "What!" said the children. "Oh," said Jasper with a laugh, "they call me Jappy its easier to say than Jasper; ever so many people do for short. You may if you want to," he said looking around on them all. "How funny!" laughed Polly, "But I don't know as it is any worse than Polly or Ben."
Joel bolted up at that, and began to smile through the tears running down the rosy face. "Will you, really?" he said, "just like Ben and everything?" "I can't be as good as Ben," said Jappy, laughing, "but I'll be a real brother like him." "Phoo phoo! Then I don't care!" cried Joel wiping off the last tear on the back of his chubby hand.
"Oh, I'll find something else," said Jappy, cheerfully, who had quite set his heart on giving the flowers. "Let me see I might carve her a bracket." "Do," cried Polly, clapping her hands enthusiastically. "And do carve a little bird, like the one you did on your father's." "I will," said Jasper, "just exactly like it.
"Yes," whispered Polly, "but don't you tell her yet till you get it done, Phronsie." "I won't," said Phronsie in the loudest of tones but putting her mouth close to Polly's ear. "And then she'll be so s'prised, Polly! won't she?" Just then came Jasper's voice at the door. "Can I come in?" "Oh, do, Jappy," cried Polly, rushing along with Phronsie in her arms to open the door.
"That isn't anything," said Jappy, bringing his handsome face out into the strong light; "why, it's just nothing to what she has told time and again in the little brown house in Badgertown;" and then he caught sight of Polly's face, which turned a little pale in the firelight as he spoke; and the brown eyes had such a pathetic droop in them that it went to the boy's very heart.
"That's a deal, my little yellow-skinned kid," the valet agreed in a tone of relief. "I'll show you where the things are kept." His new coadjutor bowed. "The telephone is ringing in the master's room," he observed. "You shall remain here, and I will answer it." "That goes, Jappy," the man acquiesced. "If it's a young lady take her name, but don't say that Mr. Van Teyl's about.
"Or Phronsie," said Jappy. "Don't you like Jappy?" he said, bringing his head down to her level, as she sat on the little stool at his feet, content in listening to the merry chat. "Is that the same as Jasper?" she asked gravely. "Yes, the very same," he said.
And the old gentleman said "Humph!" but he looked at his son, and something shone in his eye just for a moment. Phronsie had retreated with "baby" in her arms behind the door on the new arrival. But seeing everything progressing finely, and overcome by her extreme desire to see Jappy and Prince, she began by peeping out with big eyes to observe how things were going on.
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