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Updated: May 24, 2025
And just then a great wind came and raised the parasol from the ground, and the hook of the handle caught in Kernel Cob's belt and pulled him up with it and Sweetclover was just in time to catch hold of him as he sailed away. And Jackie and Peggs sat upon the grass and cried because they had lost their little dolls.
"By all the rules of treasure-hunting, the finder keeps the treasure." Mrs. Handsomebody was silenced. She did not wish to quarrel with the Peggs. Mrs. Pegg moved closer to her. "Mrs. Handsomebody," she said, winking her white eyelashes very fast, "I really do not think that you should allow your pupils to accept this er treasure.
His nose was large and sun-burned; and every now and again he would stop in his caged-animal walk and sniff the air as though he enjoyed it. I liked the old gentleman from the start. "Oo-o! See the funny old man!" giggled The Seraph. "Coat like Jacob an' his bwethern!" Angel and I plied Mary Ellen with questions. Who was he? Did he live with the Peggs? Did she think he was a foreigner?
"I was here once with the Showman," said the Villain, "and I remember the way the people talked." And, being pushed onto a wagon, they were driven outside the city. "We mustn't go too far," said Sweetclover, "or we'll never find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let's get out before it's too late." So they climbed out of their hiding place, and jumped to the ground.
Through the town they went and everywhere children ran after them, and wondered at the strange puppets. And after a while they came to a little theatre and were thrown down among a lot of other puppets. "I don't intend to stay here," said Kernel Cob. "I'm going to run away. I've got to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather." "I don't think you'll be able to get away," said the Villain.
"We are trying to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," he explained, and after he had told her their story, she was so interested that she said she would help them as soon as she had finished her breakfast. "Now," she said, "let us start. Where are the motheranfather of these little children?" "I don't know," said Kernel Cob. "They're lost."
"I would rather have a mother and father than everything else in the world," says Peggs. "Better'n little Sweetclover?" asked Jackie. "Yes," answered Peggs, "for I could make another doll, but you can only have one mother and one father." "Maybe you're right," said Jackie, "but I love Kernel Cob very much, just the same." "Of course!" says Peggs.
But they hadn't been there a day when Speed was caught by a number of men, and again Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were left alone to work things out the best way they could. Sweetclover was very much discouraged, for said she: "Now that we are here and have lost all our friends, and with no one to help us, I don't see how we are ever to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather."
Now, all of this was heard by Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, for all flowers and vegetables understand the language of people, but people do not understand the language of flowers and vegetables; and when Kernel Cob and Sweetclover talked, Jackie and Peggs couldn't hear them because flowers whisper very softly, and even if the children could hear them they couldn't understand them, you see, because it's a different kind of language and they never had heard it.
Jackie was a little boy and he had a little sister named Peggs, and they lived with their Aunt who was very old, maybe thirty-two. And it was so very long since she had been a little girl, that she quite forgot that children need toys to play with and all that. So poor little Jackie and Peggs had no soldiers or dolls but could only play at make-believe all day long.
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