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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Don't laugh, Uncle, but you see, it's such an awfully hot day and I really think it would comfort them to have " "A pink fan apiece, all 'round?" "No, Uncle, not that at all; something much cooler than that. A can of pink ice cream!" "Just the thing, Mops! How did you ever come to think of it?
"Yes, but not as much as I wish to. Coke and Wharton aren't any clearer to a head grown dizzy with bending over mops, brooms and heavy trucks all day." "No, I should think not. Ah oh well, Bert, how should you like to come into my office and help around, do such errands as I need and help copy my papers?" "I should be delighted."
Their skins glistened like ebony from the fat they had liberally rubbed in, and their teeth and eyes gleamed in the reflection of the fires. Their hair, fizzled out in mops, had the appearance of fantastic Scotch bonnets; but apparently all their vanity had been lavished on their heads, for of dress they wore nothing but anklets and a strip of hide round the waist.
"Just a little," answered Simon. "Well, the next time you do it you'll get your jacket dusted, do you hear?" "Yes, father." The young man disappeared into the house, three of the wet dogs following him. "Isn't Lord Simon sweet?" asked Mops, with another roguish smile at me. "Awfully," I replied politely, "but is the lady really your mother?"
The new mother appeared no longer as a homely cottager, but a beautiful lady attired in white; the babe, fairer than before, but still witnessing with the elvish cast of its eye to its paternity, was wrapped in swaddling clothes of silvery gauze; while the elder children, who sat on either side of the bed, were transformed into flat-nosed imps, who with mops and mows were busied to no end in scratching their own polls, or in pulling the fairy lady's ears with their long and hairy paws.
In short, I prefer a bear-garden to the adder's den; or, to put this case in its extremest point of view, I have more patience with men in a rude state of nature outraging the human form than I have with apes 'making mops and mows' at the extravagances they have first provoked.
I was in good footer training long before I started to get fit for Aldershot. But I think I ought to get along fairly well. Any idea who's in against us? 'Harrow, Felsted, Wellington. That's all, I think. 'St Paul's? 'No. 'Good. Well, I hope your first man mops you up. I've a conscientious objection to scrapping with you. Allen laughed.
Behind were another, and another, four-and-twenty in all, flying past us with such a din and clatter, the blue-coated men clinging on to the gun and the tumbrils, the drivers cursing and cracking their whips, the manes flying, the mops and buckets clanking, and the whole air filled with the heavy rumble and the jingling of chains.
She's certainly somewhere around. Run away now, King. Mrs. Corey and I are busy." King walked slowly away. "It's pretty queer," he said to Hester and the Craig boys; "Mops is nowhere to be found." "Well, don't look so scared," said Tom; "she can't be kidnapped. If it was your baby sister, that would be different. But Midget has just gone off on some wild-goose chase, or she is hiding to tease us."
In an hour I was picking my way across wet floors, among mops and pails toward the sanity and dry comfort of Mr. Daly's office. He held my hands closely for a moment, then broke out complainingly: "You've behaved nicely, haven't you? Not a single line sent to tell what you were seeing, doing, thinking?" "I beg your pardon I distinctly remember sending you a line." He scowled blackly.
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