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In the meanwhile happened the fall of the kingdom of Samaria. The Assyrians carried off the inhabitants captive, among them Hananel, the father-in-law of Jedidiah. One of the captives, the Samaritan priest Zimri, succeeded in making his escape, and he fled to Jerusalem.
But Jedidiah called them the "grateful people;" and it was he that caught the first glimpse of the procession when it came up with the ark, Mr. Jones at the head. He had some faith in them; so it was he that thought there ought to be a village built for Noah and his family; and when Mr. Dyer had some doubts about building it he suggested, "Let's ask the 'grateful people."
"Not to you, Maria." "Well, I won't, if you'll take me up and introduce me to Mr. Gray." "What for?" asked Jedidiah jealously. "Because I want to know him." Mr. Burbank was obliged to obey the request of his partner. "Oh, Mr. Gray, you play just lovely!" said Miss Snodgrass rapturously. "Thank you for the compliment," said Philip, with a low bow.
Lucky it was lying on the chair, close by the door, so I brought it off from the fire. Artemas has come home. "I don't see how we can ever get them back again," said Mr. Dyer. "Why should not we ask the 'grateful people'?" asked Jedidiah. To explain what Jedidiah and his father meant, I shall have to tell how it was Jedidiah came to have a Noah's Ark, and all about it, for it was a little odd.
Noah, his sons and their wives, had not been unmoved. Their satisfaction had been great. They had carried water to the bears, and had looked much pleased; and now they shook their heads at seeing only one jaguar. "I think they must be all caught but that one jaguar," said Jedidiah. "They look satisfied, and are going about their daily work; and it is time we found some place for the wild beasts.
"Perhaps you're in love with him?" continued Jedidiah, in a tone meant to be sarcastic. "I should be if he was a little older," said the young lady, rather enjoying her lover's displeasure. "I don't believe he can play at all," growled Jedidiah. "He's fooled Abner Webb, like as not. It's a pity we couldn't have Paul Beck."
Jedidiah himself made the loveliest coop for the hen; and the boys had a nice time over a pond they dug in the mud, for the ducks. Indeed, it occupied Spinville for some time; and Noah, Shem, and Ham did not sit down much, but looked very busy. There was a fence built round the whole village, high enough to keep in the elephants and the giraffes, though they could look over.
If it was leap-year fifty times over, I wouldn't offer myself to you!" And the young lady tossed her head in a very decided manner. "Now don't get mad, Maria!" implored Jedidiah, feeling that at the prompting of jealousy; he had put his foot in it. "I didn't mean nothing." "Then you'd better say nothing next time," retorted the young lady.
Miss Maria Snodgrass allowed herself to be propitiated, more especially as she herself might have been left without a partner, had she adhered to her determination and sent Jedidiah adrift.
"They ought to have some houses to live in, and barns," said Jedidiah. Then it was Mr. Dyer had said they could never get them back into the ark; and Jedidiah had said, "We might ask the 'grateful people," for this was the name the inhabitants of Spinville went by in the Dyer family ever since the time of the potatoes.
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