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Roy rose, brushed the crumbs from his lammies and stretched his tall frame. 'Heigh ho, I wish we could get back to our chaps, he remarked regretfully. 'Well, of all the ungrateful beggars! said Ken with a laugh. 'Talk of buying a ham and seeing life, you won't see as much in the trenches in a month as you'll see here in a day. 'Any one can have this steel box for me, retorted Roy.
"Well, the Irish bogs are not always easy travelling," I answered, "but the Sally-baby will soon be old enough to feel the spring of the Irish turf under her feet." "What will the chickens and ducklings and pigeons do while we are gone?" asked Francie. "An' the lammies?" piped the Sally-baby, who has all the qualities of Mary in the immortal lyric.
Lammie greeted its progress, and Miss Lammie laughed till the tears rolled unheeded down her cheeks, especially when Shargar, emboldened by the admiration Robert had awakened, imparted his private share in the comedy, namely, the entombment of Boston in a fifth-fold state; for the Lammies were none of the unco guid to be censorious upon such exploits.
"Well, you two little lammies can sit right down here and pick flowers, and if you find a strawberry I'll give you a cent." "As if we was babies," thought the little girls, for they were wise enough to know that strawberries were gone long ago. "I don't like her," said Prudy to Dedy, when Ruth had turned away; "she calls me names all the whole time. I guess she don't know my name is Prudy."
'Yes, I don't think our German friends have much to boast of, said the other with a smile. 'We can build fresh ships all right, and so far as I know they haven't got a single man. But you fellows look perished. Down with you to the engine-room. Coxswain, get out some lammies for them, and see they have cocoa. 'Ay, ay, sir, answered the coxswain. But Ken paused.
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