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"Well, if they are men," said Kernel Cob, "they ought to have their hair cut, and look like men. And if Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather look like these Chinamen, I don't want to find them at all, for I think a child is better off without parents than having two mothers." "I wish we had never come here at all," said Sweetclover.
"Hello, Mister Cricket," shouted Kernel Cob peering over the side of the chair. And the Cricket hopped over to where Kernel Cob was lying. "Who are you?" he chirped. "I'm Kernel Cob. And Sweetclover and I are looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," said Kernel Cob, "Have you seen them?" "Never heard of them," chirped the Cricket. "What's their names?"
We were at his side like a shot, and there in the hitherto blank window of the Peggs' house stood the old gentleman of the flowered dressing-gown laughing and nodding at The Seraph! When he saw us he made a sign to us to open our window, and at the same instant raised his own. It took the three of us to accomplish it, for the window moved unreadily, being seldom raised, as Mrs.
"Can you speak Moonflower talk?" asked Sweetclover. "Yes," said Edelweiss. "Very well," said Kernel Cob, "we are trying to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather and we came all the way from the Earth on a parasol to do so. Maybe you can help us." "I would if I could," replied Edelweiss. "But I am afraid they are not here.
And while Peggs cut out and sewed a uniform for the soldier, Jackie went in search of legs for Sweetclover. And these he made of two stems of a flower, bent at the ends to look like feet. And he ran back to Peggs with them. "Here are the legs for Sweetclover with green shoes and stockings on." And he tied them to the rest of Sweetclover so that when she walked, they wouldn't come off.
"I would like to live here," whispered the Villain, "everybody seems to be so happy." "So would I," said Sweetclover. "I love to hear beautiful music, but we have to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather." And being tired, they fell asleep and early in the morning their gondola was resting at the side of some marble steps which led up to a great square called Saint Mark's.
Suddenly The Seraph spoke in that cock-sure way of his. "There's a piwate at Peggs." Mrs. Handsomebody looked at him sharply. "What's that?" she demanded. At the same instant Angel and I kicked him under cover of the table. "What did you say?" repeated Mrs. Handsomebody sternly. "Funny ole gennelman at the Cwibbage Peggs," replied The Seraph with his mouth full. Mrs.
And he stood on his tippy toes to look bigger. "And I'd like Sweetclover to be a mother," says Peggs, "and have hundreds and hundreds of children so she could give them all the dolls that ever they wanted." "That would be noble," said Jackie. "It's terrible for children to have no father or mother isn't it?" asked Peggs looking far off at nothing in the sky. "Yes," said Jackie.
And Peggs ran to Margaret and was hugged and hugged in her loving arms. And all the time Kernel Cob was trying to understand what was going on, for he knew Jackie and Peggs the moment he saw them, but couldn't get into his head that Margaret and John were their motheranfather.
Presently, the man stooped down and picked up what seemed to be a stone, and he showed it eagerly to the woman and she trembled with excitement and the stone glowed. "It must be gold," said Jackie Tar. "They're gold miners." "But who are they?" "I've got it!" cried Kernel Cob. "They're Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," and he danced with joy.
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