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One mile high would therefore be 880 times as high as your papa, But this is a mere nothing only one mile's height. In forty miles there would be no less than 211,200 feet; and setting papas aside, of whom it would take 35,200, one on the top of the other, to go so far into the sky, let us think of the height of the tallest buildings you know; church and cathedral towers for instance.
Mammas are always good-humoured by the sea; papas come out of their eternal newspaper and toss the wee brats on their shoulders, uncles drop down on the merry little group with fresh presents every day. The restraint, the distance of home vanishes with the practical abolition of the nursery and the schoolroom.
"I don't swear except when I am in a passion, which, I am sorry to say, is very seldom; and I don't promise till I know what I promise; neither do I go on driving runaway boys in other men's gigs unless I know that I am taking them to a safe place, where their papas and mammas can get at them." "I have no papa, no mamma," said the boy, dolefully and with quivering lips. "Poor boy!
Pity the fathers who do not know how to be papas as often as possible, who do not know how to roll on the carpet, play at being a horse, pretend to be the great wolf, undress their baby, imitate the barking of the dog, and the roar of the lion, bite whole mouthfuls without hurting, and hide behind armchairs so as to let themselves be seen. Pity sincerely these unfortunates.
Do you think that the fathers and mothers of the holy Catholic Church are not as absurd as Protestant papas and mammas?
Young women when they are married ought to have their papas' and mammas' consent. I have been thinking about it a great deal for the last month or two, and I have made up my mind to that." "What is it all to come to, then?" "I mean to get papa's consent. That is what it is to come to." "And if he is obstinate?" "I shall coax him round at last. When the time for going comes, he'll yield then."
'Let us make him kneel down here for a couple of hours, and use him as a dice-board, said Raphael, 'as you used to do to the girls in Armenia. 'Ah, you recollect that? and how the barbarian papas used to grumble, till I had to crucify one or two, eh? That was something like life!
Ducker had decided the church they would attend when the session opened, and what day she would have, and many other important things that it is well to have one's mind made up on and not leave to the last. Maudie Ducker had been taken into the secret, and began to feel sorry for the other little girls whose papas were contented to let them live always in such a pokey little place as Millford.
Other little girls have mamas to care for them, and big, tall papas who love them, and truly aunts, real GOOD aunts aren't the same." "How about uncles? Are THEY worth while?" questioned Uncle John. She lifted her head, and seeing the twinkle in his fine eyes, she smiled through her tears. "I've only one uncle," she said, "but he's the best one in the world!"
Half a dozen papas were waiting for their daughters, trains stood ready, there was a clamor of good-bys. Mr. Louisa was borne away by an uncle, with whom she was to pass the night, and Katy and Clover found themselves left alone.
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