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He repeated to his tut-tutting father that he did not wish to go to college or law-school, and Babbitt was equally disturbed by this "shiftlessness" and by Ted's relations with Eunice Littlefield, next door. Though she was the daughter of Howard Littlefield, that wrought-iron fact-mill, that horse-faced priest of private ownership, Eunice was a midge in the sun.
He seemed to be just recovering from a fit of sickness. His face, prematurely old, was pinched and colorless. "Our Columbine in the Humpty Dumpty afterpiece," was the way the clown introduced the lady. "I don't know how to thank you for all your trouble, Miss Nellis." "Don't mention it, Billy," responded the woman. "Any of us would fight for it to help you or the kid, wouldn't we, Midge?"
But you know, 'into each life some rain must fall." "And I did have a good time, too," went on Midge. "Isn't it funny, Father, how you can have a good time and a bad time both at once." "Quite comic, I should say. Now, let me get my coat off, and then we'll talk matters over." Marjorie skipped into the living-room, and plumped herself down on the sofa.
There are three different kinds of these tormenting insects, viz. the mosquito, the black-fly, and the gnat the latter the same as the midge in N. Britain who relieve each other regularly in the work of torture.
The subject of flies becomes of vast moment to a Pharaoh, whose ears are dinned with the buzz of myriad winged plagues, mingled with angry cries from malcontent and fly-pestered subjects; or to the summer traveller in northern lands, where they oppose a stronger barrier to his explorations than the loftiest mountains or the broadest streams; or to the African pioneer, whose cattle, his main dependence, are stung to death by the Tsetze fly; or the fariner whose eyes on the evening of a warm spring day, after a placid contemplation of his growing acres of wheat blades, suddenly detects in dismay clouds of the Wheat midge and Hessian fly hovering over their swaying tops.
And I telled the state's lawyer, Floyd Vandecar, this; I says, 'Vandecar, ye be a good man, I be a thief, and ye caught me square, ye did. My little Midge be sick like women is sick sometimes, and she wants me, like every woman wants her man jest then, an' if ye'll let me see her, to stay a bit, I'll go up for twice my time. But he jest laughed till "
Oh, here's a pretty one, listen." Midge read aloud: "What is a Valentine? Tell me, pray. Message of love and affection true; This is a Valentine, I LOVE YOU!" "That's sweet. Did your mother write it?" "Yes, Mother makes lovely poetry. Here's a ridiculous one from Kit." "Marjorie, Parjorie, Pudding and Pie, Hurry up home, or I'll have to cry.
"A small schooner lying to right ahead, sir," sang out the boatswain from the forecastle. Before we could beat to quarters, another sang between our masts. We kept steadily on our course, and as we approached our pigmy antagonist, he bore up. Presently we were alongside of him. "Heave to," hailed the strange sail; "heave to, or I'll sink you." The devil you will, you midge, thought I.
Both the birds sit on the edge of the nest, wag their tails and consult and look delighted, although the whole nest seems to be full of an anxious peeping. After a while they set out on the wildest hunt for midges. Midge after midge is caught and brought to whatever it is that is peeping up there in his hand. And when the food comes, the peeping is at its very loudest.
"What will become of me, with a pious, prosy, perfect creature eternally haunting the house and exhorting me on the error of my ways!" cried Sylvia. "Don't disturb yourself; he is not likely to take much notice of you; and it is not for an indolent, freakish midge to scoff at a man whom she does not know, and couldn't appreciate if she did," was Mark's lofty reply.
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