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He was angry only one night, and that was not at me, but Merrylegs, his performing dog. After he beat the dog, he lay down crying on the floor with him in his arms, and the dog licked his face." Louisa saw that she was sobbing, and going to her, kissed her, took her hand, and sat down beside her. "Finish by telling me how your father left you, Sissy.
Merrylegs was a good deal put out at being "mauled about," as he said, "by a boy who knew nothing;" but toward the end of the second week he told me confidentially that he thought the boy would turn out well. At last the day came when James had to leave us; cheerful as he always was, he looked quite down-hearted that morning.
If you should hear a dog, sir, it's only Merrylegs, and he only barks." They followed the girl up some steep stairs, and stopped while she went on for a candle. Reappearing, with a face of great surprise, she said, "Father is not in our room, sir. If you wouldn't mind walking in, sir? I'll find him directly."
He learned to sweep the stable, to bring in the straw and hay; he began to clean the harness, and helped to wash the carriage. As he was quite too short to do anything in the way of grooming Ginger and me, James taught him upon Merrylegs, for he was to have full charge of him, under John. He was a nice little bright fellow, and always came whistling to his work.
Blomefield, 'My dear madam, you need not be anxious about the children; my old Merrylegs will take as much care of them as you or I could; I assure you I would not sell that pony for any money, he is so perfectly good-tempered and trustworthy'; and do you think I am such an ungrateful brute as to forget all the kind treatment I have had here for five years, and all the trust they place in me, and turn vicious, because a couple of ignorant boys used me badly?
Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling, Mr. Childers interpreted. 'Oh! said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that is tip, is it? 'In a general way that's missing his tip, Mr. E. W. B. Childers answered. 'Nine oils, Merrylegs, missing tips, garters, banners, and Ponging, eh! ejaculated Bounderby, with his laugh of laughs. 'Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself!
Gradgrind, beckoning her nearer to him before he said so, and dropping his voice. 'Only to father and Merrylegs, sir. At least I mean to father, when Merrylegs was always there. 'Never mind Merrylegs, Jupe, said Mr. Gradgrind, with a passing frown. 'I don't ask about him. I understand you to have been in the habit of reading to your father? 'O, yes, sir, thousands of times.
"You see," he said to John, "I am leaving a great deal behind; my mother and Betsy, and you, and a good master and mistress, and then the horses, and my old Merrylegs. At the new place there will not be a soul that I shall know. If it were not that I shall get a higher place, and be able to help my mother better, I don't think I should have made up my mind to it; it is a real pinch, John."
Thomas said he would stay with him, so they went and sat down on a bench that had been brought into Merrylegs' stall, and put down the lantern at their feet, that I might not be disturbed with the light. For awhile both men sat silent, and then Tom Green said in a low voice: "I wish, John, you'd say a bit of a kind word to Joe.
"Well, I don't think she does find pleasure," says Merrylegs; "it is just a bad habit; she says no one was ever kind to her, and why should she not bite? Of course, it is a very bad habit; but I am sure, if all she says be true, she must have been very ill-used before she came here. John does all he can to please her; so I think she might be good-tempered here.
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