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At the table, Cicely ignored the events of the afternoon "Allyn is having a bad time with his German and I am going to see if I can help him," was all she said. "Are you going to use the library, this evening?" "'Lit-tle ones to him be-long, Vey are weak, but he is strong. "Mam-ma-a-a!" Mac's burst of psalmody ended in a roar. "Yes, Mac. Here I am." "Where?" "Upstairs, packing."
"When I found my-self im-pris-oned I shout-ed for help un-til my voice ran down; and then I walked back and forth in this lit-tle room un-til my ac-tion ran down; and then I stood still and thought un-til my thoughts ran down. Af-ter that I re-mem-ber noth-ing un-til you wound me up a-gain."
"That's wonderful on you! ... You don't! Oh, my dear! But that's because you're not used to it. You know how you said, for years, you had to have a brim, and couldn't possibly wear a turban, with your nose, until I proved to you that if the head size was only big ... Well, perhaps this needs just a lit-tle lift here. Ju-u-ust a nip. There! That does it." And that did it.
"A a lit-tle bit!" gasped the rabbit boy, as he floundered around in the water. "But I could swim more if nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy was here to show me," and then he couldn't talk any more, for his mouth was full of water. Well, Sammie was terribly frightened, as he floundered around in the pond, with his wooden gun, and so was Buddy frightened, up on the plank bridge.
I did not know any infant music, but I felt sure that a soothing tune was the great requisite, and that the words were of small importance. So I started on an old Methodist tune, which I remembered very well, and which was used with the hymn containing the lines: "Weak and wounded, sick and sore," and I sang, as soothingly as I could: "Lit-tle Pat-sy, Wat-sy, Sat-sy, Does he feel a lit-ty bad?
So she wound up Number Two, and immediately the clock-work man said, without moving any part of his body except his lips: "Good morn-ing, lit-tle girl. Good morn-ing, Mrs. Hen." The words sounded a little hoarse and creaky, and they were uttered all in the same tone, without any change of expression whatever; but both Dorothy and Billina understood them perfectly.
"Mis-ter Tin-ker," continued Tiktok, "made a lad-der so tall that he could rest the end of it a-gainst the moon, while he stood on the high-est rung and picked the lit-tle stars to set in the points of the king's crown.
It seemed to Paul as if the great clock in the hall took this up, and went on saying, "how, is, my, lit-tle friend? how, is, my, lit-tle friend?" over and over again. Paul was handed over to Miss Blimber at once to be "brought on." "Cornelia," said the doctor. "Dombey will be your charge at first. Bring him on, Cornelia, bring him on."
No second invitation was needed, and the chorus was taken up by all, the singers beating time with their feet and chips. ALL. "Oh, mother, an-gel mother, are you waitin' there beside the lit-tle cottage on the lea " JAKE. "On the lea " ALL. "How of-ten would she bless me in all them days so fair Would old dog Tray re-member me " SONORA. "Re-member me."
The following stanza is copied from page 61 of the edition of 1844 to illustrate the method of presenting words: I like to see a lit-tle dog, And pat him on the head; So pret-ti-ly he wags his tail When-ev-er he is fed. The First Reader was mostly in words of one syllable.
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