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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Now, I should judge," said the heartless teacher, looking sternly at the crimson-faced victim, "I should judge that this wicked creature ought to have a terrific whipping!" "That's so!" shouted Johnny; "we found Honey Drop top of a house, firing mud into a man's eyes." "Yes, so we did," said Dotty, fully restored to good humor, "black mud; Honey's a bad Nindian.
"I don't know whether he's a black gentleman or not, but he's a Nindian one. He's very rich, an' he's ill, an' the gentleman of the Large Family is his lawyer. He's had a lot of trouble, an' it's made him ill an' low in his mind. He worships idols, miss. He's an 'eathen an' bows down to wood an' stone. I seen a' idol bein' carried in for him to worship.
The thing is, shall we play hide-and-seek, or would you really rather go to bed, as Mother said, and have dinner and hot drinks?" "Nonsense," cried Judy with authority. "He's got an awful cold, and he's got to go to bed at once. He's shivering all over. It's Nindian fever." "No, really, really " began Stumper, but was not allowed to finish.
On the upper landing, however, there was a curious sound. Maria, half asleep in the maternal arms, did not hear it, apparently, but the other two children exchanged sudden, recriminating glances. A door stood ajar, and light came through it from the room within. This curious sound came with it. It was a sneeze a regular Nindian sneeze. "We never thought of looking there," they said reproachfully.
"If the new people have children," Sara speculated, "the Large Family children will be sure to come and play with them, and they MIGHT come up into the attic just for fun." At night, after her work was done, Becky came in to see her fellow prisoner and bring her news. "It's a' Nindian gentleman that's comin' to live next door, miss," she said.
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