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"He's in the ice cream!" "Listen, he's calling!" "His mouth is full, I can't hear him." "Hurry! Hurry! Oh, hurry!" cried Minerva. "I'll tell you what let's do," Roy said. "You told us once," said Warde; "that's enough." "I saved the ice cream freezer from rolling off," shouted Pee-wee. "A lot of good that does us," shouted Doc Carson. "Put it where it will be safe," shouted Townsend.
Now tell me, would you mind very much if I left you to-day and returned to Chinkie's Flat?" "No, indeed, Ted. Surely I would not be so selfish as to interfere with your business arrangements!" "That's a good little girl. I did want to stay in Townsville for a week or two after you had left, then I could have taken Miss Carolan as far as Chinkie's Flat on her way to Minerva Downs.
"It's done ruint," he replied, "you'll hafter th'ow it away; 't ain't fitten fer nothin. I done cried 'bout a bucketful in it." "Why did you cry?" asked Miss Minerva calmly. "Don't you like to work?" "Yes 'm, I jes' loves to work; I wish I had time to work all the time. But it makes my belly ache to churn, I got a awful pain right now." "Churn on!" she commanded unsympathetically.
Seton Thompson would have us believe that all young things are laboriously trained by their parents, just like human children, and if he was an eye-witness of all the scenes that he describes so vividly, it must be so with other young things. But he did not know Tommy, who is the bird of Minerva and evidently sprang into being, like his patron goddess, with all his armour on.
He set up the alembics and pipkins which he had overturned, and here and there he opened a black-lettered folio, discovered an inch or two of crabbed Hebrew, or the corner of an illuminated script. A cameo dropped in one place, a clay figure of Minerva set up in another, completed the picture. His next proceeding was less intelligible.
The curative goddess rode between the four eminent physicians, Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus, and was attended by two footmen and four pike-bearers. Last of the allegorical personages came Minerva, prancing in complete steel, with lance in rest, and bearing her Medusa shield.
Her first original work was Daphne, the beautiful girl whom Apollo loved, and who, rather than accept his addresses, was changed into laurel by the gods. Apollo crowned his head with laurel, and made the flower sacred to himself forever. Next, Miss Hosmer produced "Medusa," famed for her beautiful hair, which Minerva turned into serpents because Neptune loved her.
Uncle Peabody used to call them the "Minervy flowers" because they were a present from his Aunt Minerva. When Aunt Deel returned to the kitchen where I sat a sorrowing little refugee hunched up in a corner she said: "I'll have to tell your Uncle Peabody ayes!" "Oh please don't tell my Uncle Peabody," I wailed. "Ayes! I'll have to tell him," she answered firmly.
She was a grand example of Kraft's theory of the artistic adjustment of nature. She belonged, largely, to waiting, as Minerva did to the art of scrapping, or Venus to the science of serious flirtation. Pedestalled and in bronze she might have stood with the noblest of her heroic sisters as "Liver-and-Bacon Enlivening the World." She belonged to Cypher's.
Quackenboss, thoughtfully, "we shall have none of our ancestors left in a short time, if they go on as they are doing." Fleda was beaten from the field, and, rushing into the breakfast-room, astonished Hugh by seizing hold of him and indulging in a most prolonged and unbounded laugh. She did not show herself again till the company came in to supper; but then she was found as grave as Minerva.
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