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"I wonder if the Railway misses us," she said, plaintively. "We never go to see it now." "It seems ungrateful," said Bobbie; "we loved it so when we hadn't anyone else to play with." "Perks is always coming up to ask after Jim," said Peter, "and the signalman's little boy is better. He told me so." "I didn't mean the people," explained Phyllis; "I meant the dear Railway itself."
Perks did not appear until the 11.54 was signalled, and then he, like everybody else that morning, had a newspaper in his hand. "Hullo!" he said, "'ere you are. Well, if THIS is the train, it'll be smart work! Well, God bless you, my dear! I see it in the paper, and I don't think I was ever so glad of anything in all my born days!"
And the words, "he's not a coward," made Peter determined not to make any fuss about the pain in his foot, though it was rather bad, especially at night. Praise helps people very much, sometimes. There were visitors, too. Mrs. Perks came up to ask how he was, and so did the Station Master, and several of the village people. But the time went slowly, slowly.
"Peter's hurt his foot with a rake three great gaping wounds, like soldiers get. And it was partly my fault." "That it wasn't, I'll go bail," said Perks. "Doctor seen him?" "Phyllis has gone for the Doctor." "He'll be all right; you see if he isn't," said Perks.
Perks made quite a round of visits to thank people for their kind birthday presents, and after each visit felt that she had a better friend than she had thought. "Yes," said Perks, reflectively, "it's not so much what you does as what you means; that's what I say. Now if it had been charity " "Oh, drat charity," said Mrs.
"But we'd have come down the very next day if we'd known you hadn't heard the story," Phyllis added hastily. "I believe you, Missie," said Perks, and sprang across the line six feet in front of the advancing train. The girls hated to see him do this, but Peter liked it. It was so exciting.
But if he returns with one of the Spanish officials, what then?" "Set him at defiance; and if you are driven to extremities, appeal to the British vice-consul for aid." Captain Obadiah P. Perks came back at the end of an hour, when I had pretty well ripened my plans, and, retiring within the house, I left Tom to deal with him.
Perks; "nobody won't offer you charity, Bert, however much you was to want it, I lay. That was just friendliness, that was." When the clergyman called on Mrs. Perks, she told him all about it. "It WAS friendliness, wasn't it, Sir?" said she. "I think," said the clergyman, "it was what is sometimes called loving-kindness." So you see it was all right in the end.
You see if I don't," said Peter. "Let's ask Mother first," said Bobbie. "Oh, what's the use of bothering Mother about every little thing?" said Peter, "especially when she's busy. Come on. Let's go down to the village now and begin." So they went. The old lady at the Post-office said she didn't see why Perks should have a birthday any more than anyone else.
We've cut staff, cut perks, even trimmed the fleet of federal limousines. After years of leaders whose rhetoric attacked bureaucracy but whose actions expanded it, we will actually reduce it by 252,000 people over the next five years. By the time we have finished, the federal bureaucracy will be at its lowest point in 30 years.
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