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We forgive you for all your tricks, and we don't care how much excitement you furnish if you will only keep your feet on something solid. We came within a little of all going over with you in our fright." "Ithn't that nithe?" glowed Tommy. She was recovering her spirits. "I thhould have had company." "That is a very ill-timed remark, Tommy," answered Miss Elting in a severe tone.
"Both men stood aside to enable me to continue my reading, and, as I was about to turn away, the smarter of the two addressed me. "'Good chanth here, misther. Nithe little bithness going for nothing. No charge for goodwill or fixtures. Ready-made bithneth and nothing to pay but rent. "'Ja! the other man broke in, 'dat shop is a leedle goldmine; und you buys 'im for noding.
When I came to my senses I was slowly drifting down stream, clinging to a piece of charred plank. I know it was charred because I could smell it. You know how wet, burnt wood smells? This piece of plank smelled that way." "Nithe, appetizing odor," nodded Tommy. "Yeth? Go on." "I did not know where I was, but I knew I was drifting downstream.
He greeted them with his polite but constitutionally leering smile. "Good-evening, mith," he said; "nithe evening!" "He's rather an awful little man," the grey girl said when they had achieved the crossing of the street; "but he's got quite a nice sense of humour." "Ah!" said Thyme. They had turned into a by-street, and stopped before a house which had obviously seen better days.
"We have forgotten all about a lamp!" exclaimed Harriet as they neared the cabin. "That has been attended to," replied Miss Elting. "You know we have been thleeping, Harriet," reminded Tommy "thleeping our young headth off. Ithn't it nithe to be able to thleep while other folkth do your work for you?" They had hurried on and Tommy was obliged to run to catch up with them.
"Hello there, Tommy, what are you standing on?" called Harriet, puffing and blowing as she pushed a canvas-bound pack along ahead of her. "I don't know. I gueth it mutht be the automobile top. It ith nithe and thpringy." "Please stay there until I get back. I wish to look it over. If you can, I wish you would find the rear end of the car, so I may locate it exactly."
'Oh, Gwynne, I'm thure Mr Prothero ith very nithe, and tho gentlemanlike and good and handthome. And, you know, clergymen are ath good ath any one in London. 'Prothero is better than most, I think, says Sir Hugh, 'because there is no humbug about him.
"I follow," said Cask. "But you mutht be genteel; you muthtn't t stread as me. I like nithe people." "Well, a soldier isn't exactly genteel," said Cask, "but I'm not so terribly uncouth." "Tread on it," said the hedgehog, "else it will bite you, ever so genteely." The adder reared its neck and rustled away. "Stop!" shouted the hedgehog, attacking the snake.
'I darethay it will. Colonel Vaughan turns suddenly, and encounters Freda's glance. 'How does the drawing get on Freda? Capitally! What a sky! quite artistic. This is said whilst looking over Freda's shoulder, but she does not respond to the remark. 'I wath jutht thaying I with I could draw. It mutht be thuth a nithe amuthement. 'Very. How is Lady Mary, to-day?
Janus, somewhat downcast and very thoughtful, led the way to the Compton House, a short distance down the street from the post-office and grocery store. The girls began talking almost as soon as they had left the store porch. "Please, please don't discharge him," begged Hazel. "He is such a nice man." "And thuch nithe whithkerth," added Grace Thompson. "He lookth jutht like an uncle of mine, who "
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