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Updated: September 24, 2025
I used to draw a good deal when I was a girl, but my attempt is very poor when I think of the original. Still the children here were so delighted with it that I wondered if you would be too. So I set to work to paint another, and this one is coming to you through the post. Perhaps Nurse will hang it up in your nursery for you. How is Nobbles? Give him my love.
'He is wicked sometimes, said Bobby, eyeing him wistfully, 'but I didded it all mine self to you. Then his uncle gave a hearty laugh. 'You and I are going to chum up, he said, lifting him on the bough by his side. 'Now tell me more. I want to know you and Nobbles. Bobby's tongue was unloosed.
'She's True, she's a kind of sister, explained Bobby, pulling his uncle breathlessly into the sitting-room and shutting the door. 'Oh, we do want you to sit down and talk to us; me and Nobbles is 'normously glad to see you! 'Ah! where is that young gentleman? I see he looks gayer than ever. Now give an account of yourself and this wonderful father of yours. Mr.
I can't do without him no longer! I'm sure, certain sure, I could find him if I went to look for him. For a long time this idea had been simmering in his head. This afternoon it took shape and form. ''Sposing, Nobbles, my father has forgotten the house? Why, one day he may drive right past it; and if I was out there to stop him, how lovely it would be! Bobby leapt to his feet.
'But I have my suspecs of him, acause I always make him sleep with his head on my pillow close to me, and two mornings I've found him on the floor, and once under the bed. 'Ah, said his uncle, shaking his head at Nobbles, 'I would quite believe it of him. You'll promise not to give him too hard a thrashing if I tell you where he was last night.
'Just fink, Nobbles, we shall see him coming along in a grand carriage with lots of horses; and he'll stop, and the horses will stop, and the coachmens; and he'll open his arms, and me and you will run straight into them; and we'll go right away, galloping on the road to a beautiful big house, and every room every one, Nobbles me and you will have for our own, and we'll never, never go back to the House again, never till I'm a very old man with a white beard, and have to lean very heavy on you, dear Nobbles; and then we'll come to make a visit, and we'll come in the big front door, and sleep in the best spare room, and I'll say, "This is where me and Nobbles lived when we was waiting for father."
His letter took him a long time to write, and True helped him a great deal. Mrs. Allonby sent it as it was, with all the imperfections of spelling and many a blot and erasure; but she added a little note herself, as Bobby's left much to be explained. 'Me and Nobbles is kite wel, so is True. Father came at last. He tuked me in a motor home. I have a knew mother. She is very nice.
Bobby was a very small boy, but a big thinker, and he would have liked to be a big talker, but grown-up people were not interested in what he had to say. So he talked in a rapid undertone to 'Nobbles, who always understood, and who smiled perpetually into the earnest little face of his master.
'Nobbles' had been given to him a very long time ago by a sailor-brother of Nurse's, who came to tea at certain periods, and who related the most wonderful stories of foreign parts. Jane, the housemaid, always took tea in the nursery upon these occasions, and she and Bobby listened with awed admiration to the handsome traveller.
'Can't he? You give him to me. I'll make him stand up. True had seized hold of Nobbles and stuck him triumphantly two inches into the ground, where he stood smiling at them. Bobby did not approve of this treatment. 'You're not to touch him. He doesn't belong to you. 'He's only a stick! True's tone was scornful. For the first time Bobby began to feel angry with her.
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