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"Well," said Ham, "that was in his old clothes, that were too tight for him. Now he's got a good loose fit, with plenty of room, you don't know how much more he may need. No, Miranda, I'm going to have an eye on Dab." "You're a dear good fellow, anyway," said Miranda, with one of her very best smiles, "and I hope mother'll have the house all ready for us when we get back."
"Do you suppose it will leave a scar?" Bobby demanded. "Well, a little one, probably." "I've got two pretty good ones already," Bobby boasted, "not counting my vaccination. Gee! I bet mother'll be surprised." "The Americans," said Pepy, with admiring eyes fixed on their visitor, "are very peculiar about injuries. They speak always of small animals that crawl about in wounds and bring poison."
For a few minutes poor Dick was lost sight of in a perfect storm of talk; but Dab came back to him, with, "Dick's folks are dreadful poor, but we might raise it. Twenty dollars to begin with." "I've ten dollars saved up, and I know mother'll say 'Pass it right in," exclaimed Ford. It was hardly likely Mrs. Foster would express her assent in precisely that way; but Frank Harley promptly added,
"You can have four, if your mother'll let you," said Midget. "Ask her." "Oh, she'll let me. She never says no to anything I want. Does your mother?" "Yes, often. But then, I want such crazy things." "So do I. But I get them. Go on and see about the kittens." So Midget went to the telephone and told her mother the whole story about the goldfish. Mrs.
What's to prevent my goin' south when the vouchers is cashed?" he cried. "Ain't it possible?" "I presume likely," said Mr. Hopper, quietly. "Then your mother'll have to move out of her little place." The epithet aristocrat may become odious and fatal on the banks of the Mississippi as it was on the banks of the Seine. Let no man deceive himself! These are fearful times.
A sailor boy once asked if he might bring his girl to see her. He said he wanted her to see her so she could tell his mother about her. "But can't you tell her about your girl?" she asked. "Oh, yes, but I want you to tell her." he said. "You see, whatever you say mother'll know is true."
They were strolling along, peacefully enough, when suddenly his mother took his small arm and guided him into the station where they had arrived in Monroe nearly two years before. A big train came thundering to a stop now as then, and Teddy's mother said to him quickly and urgently: "Climb in, Love. That's my boy! Get in, dear; mother'll explain to you later!"
But as the doctor thinks it better to drop it, it's drop it we will, an' wait till a more convenient time that is, when mother'll be a bit stronger. For I hope neither you, miss, nor the doctor, won't give us up quite, seem' as how we have a kind of a claim upon you an' no offense, miss, to you, or Mr. Christopher, sir!"
"Oh, Dollyrinda," she whispered as they stood in the hall, "do you s'pose your mother'll EVER say yes?" "I don't believe so," replied Dolly mournfully. "But, oh, Dot, how I do want to go! Seems 'sif I never wanted anything so much in all my life!" "You don't want to go a bit more than I want to have you. Why, Dollops, I shan't go, if you don't." "Oh, yes, you will, Dotty. You must.
Mother'll take a pile o' comfort in havin' y'r wife an' children 'round. Y' see, Jane's married off lately, an' Ike's away a good 'eal, so we'll be darn glad t' have y' stop with us this winter. Nex' spring we'll see if y' can't git a start agin." And he chirruped to the team, which sprang forward with the rumbling, clattering wagon. "Say, looky here, Council, you can't do this.
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