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Every morning they had departed. One morning Ned said to Dick: "I'm turkey hungry and I'm tired of shilly-shallying. The way to get anything is to get it. Let us get a turkey. We'll start out for it now and come back after we have got it, and not before." "All right, Neddy, we goes for it, we gits it and we comes back when we gits it and not afore."
The unhappy woman crossed herself three times and, in a dry, half-suffocated voice exclaimed: "Don't bury me, Neddy, little Emma won't cry!" The lad uttered a cry like the scream of a wild bird when it is shot through the heart then he drew a long deep sigh and was quite still.
On my return I shall make inquiries regarding him at the Ragged School, and if I find that he is improving under the instruction which he will receive, I shall try to do something for him." "May I go with you?" said Neddy eagerly, "I should like to visit the school." "I think that I shall take you with me," replied his father.
"Oh, papa!" cried Neddy, "they must not stay here; this horrible hole is only fit for rats!" His father was bending over Bob, feeling his wrist, asking him questions regarding his health, with a gentle kindness which goes farther to win confidence and affection than the cold bestowal of the greatest benefits. "You are not well; you must be cared for, my boy.
As the day had closed long before the dinner had disappeared, the boys could only hear all there was to be heard to-night, about any alterations or improvements which had taken place since their absence; what success their sisters had met with, in keeping up their stock of rabbits and poultry; whether the ice-house had been yet filled; how went on old Neddy the donkey, if he was yet too old to be ridden; whether the myrtles were alive, and their own gardens had been full of flowers; and a variety of other inquiries, extremely interesting to them, and which would have doubtless been made by many of my young readers on similar occasions as those on which we are writing.
It's gone," Neddy persisted. "The Sergeant must 'ave took it." "No business of his! Where is the fool?" Mike's voice was already uneasy; thieves themselves seldom believe in there being honor among them. "You stay here. I'll go to the door and see if he's there."
No use picking it up, only make a mess on deck, there was no reward "Gee-up! Neddy." The barge went on, turning up the mud in the shallow water, sending ripples washing up to the grassy meadow shores, while the moorhens hid in the flags till it was gone.
But he had not lived in vain; for after this day of trial, mischievous Neddy behaved much better, and Aunt Jane could always calm his prankish spirit by saying, as her finger pointed to a little collar and chain hanging on the wall, "If you want to act like naughty Jocko, say so, and I'll tie you up. One monkey is enough for this family."
They had a pretty little lovers' quarrel over what wine they should have. Neddy was for obeying the guide-book and taking the wine of the country; but the bride said: "What, that nahsty stuff!" "It isn't nahsty, pet, it's quite good." "It IS nahsty." "No, it ISN'T nahsty." "It's Oful nahsty, Neddy, and I shahn't drink it." Then the question was, what she must have.
But neither Balaam nor his two servants saw him. The ass, however, had better eyesight. Being only an ass, and not a man, he had a greater aptitude for seeing angels. Not liking the look of this formidable stranger, Neddy bolted from the pathway into a field. Balaam, who saw no reason for such behavior except sheer perverseness, began to whack his ass and tried to turn him * into the right road.
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