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"Neddy Barstow, when daddy says 'Run away, Molly, I have to go, but when you say it, I stay right where I am. See?" "But this is important, Molly. It's business." "So am I important, even if I'm not business. If business is in a hurry, it can go ahead; if it isn't it can wait."
I saw nothing but the form of my grieving child, and could think of nothing but his sorrow and disappointment. "Nancy," said I to one of my domestics, who happened to come into the parlor to ask me some question, "I wish you would run down to the toy store in the next block, and buy Neddy a wagon. His heart is almost broken about one."
That was great fun; and the more they laughed and scrambled and poked at him, the faster he showered chocolates, caramels, and peppermints over them, till it looked as if it had rained candy. The man was busy with Neddy at the other end of the store; but when he heard the noise, both ran to see what was the matter.
I've got some pennies for you." So poor Jocko climbed slowly up the trellis, and sat on the window-ledge trying to eat; but he was so tired he went to sleep, and when the man pulled to wake him up, he slipped and fell, and lay as if he were dead. Neddy and his aunt ran down to see if he was killed. The cross man scolded and shook him; but he never moved, and the man said, "He is dead.
"And perhaps the other one's gone for the police!" Mike suggested uneasily. "Guess we've lost the hand, Neddy! Best be moving, eh? It's no go for to-night." "Catch me trying the bloomin' place any other night!" grumbled Neddy. "It's given me the 'orrors, and no mistake." Mike Mr. Percy Bennett, that erstwhile gentlemanly stranger recognized one of his failures.
I cannot, alas! give you the recipe, it is a secret left me by my parents." Then Father Gusson bade farewell to the two women and went on his way with "Neddy," both much refreshed by their pleasant rest. Mother Etienne handed Germaine the precious pot of ointment to put with their other purchases into the big cupboard, and they thought no more about it.
The thicket in which they stood was on the border of a big prairie of rich grass in which more than a dozen deer, nearly all bucks, could be seen feeding, with only their backs and antlers showing above the tall grass, excepting when some buck of a suspicious mind lifted his head high and gazed warily about him. "Isn't it us for the big luck, Neddy?" whispered Dick.
As for Neddy, Harry might have stood at the edge of the water and cracked the whip until his donkeyship felt disposed to come out, for not a bit did he care, knowing full well that he was out of reach, and that even if the thong could have touched him he would not have felt it through his thick grey coat; and so stock-still he stood, flapping his great ears, whisking his tail, and lazily winking his eyes.
This one gleam of philosophy came from the poor, commonplace mind as a beautiful flash may come from a rough flint struck upon the roadside. Caius pondered upon it afterwards, for he never saw Neddy Morrison again. He did not happen to pass that place again that summer, and during the winter the old man died. Caius thought at one time and another about this tale of the girl who was half a fish.
Whereupon Big Anne whisked away from her, and banged the door in her face. Mad Bell, however, did not appear to be discouraged by this reception. She finished unloading the cart of all except the tables, which she found unwieldy single-handed. Then she unharnessed old Neddy, and went and seated herself on the low wall beside the house. She was seemingly quite content with the situation.
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