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She was afraid if things were made so dreadful handy the folks would get to be lazy; and, anyhow, there wasn't any use in having things so nice in a rented house: they'd get put out of kilter right away. But Susan had set out to build a perfect house, and she was not to be frightened from her object.
Peter and Nuter and Kilter all jumped upon the seat and looked back over the track made by the sleigh. But Santa Claus had been left miles and miles behind. "What shall we do?" asked Wisk anxiously, all the mirth and mischief banished from his wee face by this great calamity. "We must go back at once and find our master," said Nuter the Ryl, who thought and spoke with much deliberation.
"No wonder the machine got out of kilter so easily." "Do you think it was done purposely?" "Well, I'm not going to say. But I'm going to watch that man. He wants to be transferred to the airship department. He put this in the hammer, perhaps, to have an excuse for a change. Well, I'll give it to him."
"It is certain that some wicked creatures have captured him," added Kilter thoughtfully, "and their object must be to make the children unhappy. So our first duty is to get the toys distributed as carefully as if Santa Claus were himself present. Afterward we can search for our master and easily secure his freedom."
"I hope not!" said Mrs. Starling, "for you seem to me a goose. Cultivated! Who is cultivated, if you are not? Weren't you a whole year at school in Boston? I guess my gentleman hasn't been to a better place. And warn't you for ever reading those musty old books, that make you out of kilter for all my world. If you don't fit his neither, I'm sorry. Society indeed!
"Your liver's out of kilter," interpolated Dorothy. "No, sir!" protested young Nisbet. "Nothing is ever out of kilter inside me! If I'm nothing else, I'm blue-ribbon boy on the health question. No, it's something I want, and that I'm pretty sure I can't get." "I know perfectly well what it is," said Dorothy, "and you haven't even asked for it!" Young Nisbet looked up suddenly.
And while they clustered around him and danced with glee at his safe return, he gave them earnest thanks for their support. But Wisk, and Nuter, and Peter, and Kilter, he embraced affectionately. "It is useless to pursue the Daemons," said Santa Claus to the army. "They have their place in the world, and can never be destroyed. But that is a great pity, nevertheless," he continued musingly.
She recited: "'In Huron, a hewer, Hugh Hughes, Hued yew-trees of unusual hues. Hugh Hughes used blue yews To build sheds for his ewes; So his ewes a blue-hued yew shed use." "Great Scott, girl!" gasped Chet. "That almost twisted your tongue out of kilter." "Any more?" queried Lance, who likewise had wonderingly listened to this display of talent. "Ah-ha! I see Nellie just bursting with one."
If you will get together some sort of a stretcher a good strong one and come on post-haste down the coolie track, I'll be grateful. I suppose we haven't a drop of brandy among us? bad luck to it!" "There's a provision kilter on one of the coolies. Shall we have it turned out, on the chance?" "Good Lord, yes. Get it done at once, please." Then he turned to Garth.
"I often pass through the walls when I gather up the letters," said Kilter, and that was a long speech for him, and so surprised Peter and Nuter that their big round eyes nearly popped out of their heads.
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