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"If you had a good large checked apron, I wouldn't mind putting that on her!" added Miss Roxy, after she had arrayed the child. "Here's one," said Mrs. Kittridge; "that may save her clothes some." Miss Roxy began to put on the wholesome garment; but, rather to her mortification, the little fairy began to weep again in a most heart-broken manner. "Don't want che't apon."
Captain Kittridge has just brought down our new one, and I'm going to take you over to Eagle Island, and we'll take our dinner and stay all day; mother says so." "Oh, how nice!" said the little girl, running cheerfully for her sun-bonnet. At the house-door they met Mrs. Pennel, with a little closely covered tin pail. "Here's your dinner, children; and, Moses, mind and take good care of her."
No tracks were found leading out of town so they began to look about inside, and there began to be some talk about this Dr. Kittridge as the culprit. He was the very man, and he went to his drug store and told his clerk to get a saddle horse and take the dead child's body in a sack to his cabin at Moore's Flat, and conceal it in a back room.
Without a name, without a history, without a single accompaniment from which her past could even be surmised, there she lay, sealed in eternal silence. "It's strange," said Captain Kittridge, as he whittled away, "it's very strange we don't find anything more of that ar ship.
"Wal', yes," said Captain Kittridge; "once when I was to the Bahamas, it was one Sunday morning in June, the first Sunday in the month, we cast anchor pretty nigh a reef of coral, and I was jist a-sittin' down to read my Bible, when up comes a merman over the side of the ship, all dressed as fine as any old beau that ever ye see, with cocked hat and silk stockings, and shoe-buckles, and his clothes were sea-green, and his shoe-buckles shone like diamonds."
Kittridge, with her spectacles also mounted, was carefully and warily "running-up breadths," stopping every few minutes to examine her work, and to inquire submissively of Miss Roxy if "it will do?"
"It is such a fine morning," she said, looking out at the window, which showed a waveless expanse of ocean. "I do hope Mara has had a good night." "I'm a-goin' to make her some jelly this very forenoon," said Mrs. Kittridge. "Aunt Roxy was a-tellin' me yesterday that she was a-goin' down to stay at the house regular, for she needed so much done now."
Some time when you come down to see Sally, we'll go down to the cove, and I'll tell you lots of stories about chil'en that have been fetched up by white bears, jist like Romulus and what's his name there." "Come, Mis' Kittridge," added the cheery Captain; "you and I mustn't be keepin' the folks up till nine o'clock." "Well now," said Mrs.
Some on 'em, they never gits over it all their lives finally." "But oh! Captain Kittridge, that talk last night was so dreadfully wicked! and Moses! oh, it was dreadful to hear him!" "Wal', yes, it was," said the Captain, consolingly; "but don't you cry, and don't you break your little heart.
Pennel, with an air of placid satisfaction, "everything seems to be going right about this vessel." Mrs. Kittridge and Sally were soon accommodated with seats, and Zephaniah Pennel and the Captain began trimming sail.
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