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"Wot's she like?" "Oh, a rale little bit of a thing, not as big as Lizer! "And, Peter, she hes teeny little hands, as wite as snow, like that woman in the picter ma got off of the tea." "Yes, Peter," chimed in another voice; "and her feet are that little that she don't make no nise wen she walks."
With this idea in my head, sinking ankle-deep in the dust, and threading my way through the pigs and fowls which hung around the back door, I went in search of my master. Mrs M'Swat was teaching Jimmy how to kill a sheep and dress it for use; while Lizer, who was nurse to the baby and spectator of the performance, was volubly and ungrammatically giving instructions in the art.
"'Wa'al, he says, givin' a hitch, 'of course I don't know jest what I would have said, but I guess, he says, ''t I'd 'a' said if you'll make it one-fifty you c'n have the hoss. "'Wa'al, now, I says, 's'posin' I was to send Dick Larrabee up here in the mornin' with the money, what do you s'pose you'd do? "'I s'pose I'd let him go, says 'Lizer. "'All right, I says, an' off I put.
"She'll be surprised wen she sees Peter," said a little girl in an audible whisper. Mrs M'Swat vouchsafed the information that three had died between Peter and Lizer, and this was how the absent son came to be so much older than his brothers and sisters. "So you have had twelve children?" I said. "Yes," she replied, laughing fatly, as though it were a joke.
While she was away, and I was looking down at the little silent face on my lap, praying for one more glimpse of my Martin's sea-blue eyes, the bricklayer came lunging into the house. "Where's Lizer?" he said. I told him and he cried: "The baiby again! Allus the baiby!"
"Seems to me I've heard it," said Thaddeus. "As I remember it, Harry, it was very pretty." "It is," said Bradley. "It's the one you mean 'Oh, 'Lizer! dear 'Lizer! Mrs. 'Ennery 'Awkins. Harry sings it well, too; but I say, Thad, you ought to hear the nurse sing it. It's great." "I should think it might be." "She has the accent down fine, you know." "Sort of born to it, eh?"
The child followed him out, her exit being accelerated by Mother Guttersnipe, who, with a rapidity only attained by long practice, seized the shoe from one of her feet, and flung it at the head of the rapidly retreating girl. "Wait till I ketches yer, Lizer," she shrieked, with a volley of oaths, "I'll break yer 'ead for ye!"
"She must be a very bold woman," said Jimmy; and Lizer pronounced her mad because, as she put it, "It's a wonder she'd be half-undressed in her photo; you'd think she oughter dress herself up complete then."
"I ain't a-goin' to have my inside spil'd with salts and senner. I don't want neither parsons nor doctors, I don't. I wouldn't 'ave a lawyer, only I'm a-thinkin' of makin' my will, I am." "Mind I gits the watch," yelled Lizer, from the corner. "If you gives it to Sal I'll tear her eyes out." "Silence!" said Kilsip, sharply, and, with a muttered curse, Lizer sat back in her corner.
"I don't hold with too much pleasure and disherpation, but you ain't had overmuch of it lately. You've stuck at home pretty constant, and ye and Lizer can have a little fly round. It'll do yous good," she said. The dissipation, pleasure, and flying round allotted to "Lizer" and me were to visit some of the neighbours. Those, like the M'Swats, were sheep-farming selectors.
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