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Ifen you can't git all the things with the pig money, please'm git the doll, and in pink, please'm, and let the others go." Laine took up his cup of tea and drank it slowly. "Part of this is hard to make out," he said, after a moment. "I can't see it very well." "All of it is hard." Claudia put a piece of cracker in her mouth. "But it's a wonder she can write at all.
At the latticed porch he jumped to the ground, turned the pony's nose into the grass and came into the kitchen. "Howdy, Miss Sally. Hi, Chloe. Cand I have a drink, please'm, Miss Sally?" He drank long and greedily from the gourd dipper, so long that Sally Madeira turned to him laughingly at last.
Then as if it burned her fingers she thrust the little image back into the box and turned to Norah brusquely. "There, that's all. You can go now, Norah," she said. "Yes'm," answered the maid. She hesitated. "If you please'm, it's Christmas Eve." "Well, I believe so," snapped Miss Terry, who seemed to be in a particularly bad humor this evening. "What do you want?"
Just then Annie, the parlormaid, tapped on the door. "Please'm," she said to Aunt Jo, "that colored boy is goin' down in the cellar to fix the furnace." "To fix the furnace?" cried Aunt Jo. "Yes'm. He says he has taken care of a furnace before. He's been up North here for 'most two years. But he lost his job last month and couldn't find another." "The poor boy," murmured Mother Bunker.
The stewardess came to their help, and persuaded a steward to open a case of bottles and give her the sawdust in which they were packed. Mrs. Patterson received it with an exclamation of delight and held out a silver coin in return. But Vaughan put her hands behind her. "Please'm," she said, "it ain't much. But I wanted to do something for that poor little orphant." Mrs.
So, Willie," turning to the little fellow, "you like my girlie, do you? Would you like to see her again?" "Yes, please'm," said Willie, his eyes sparkling. "Well, then," was the answer, "Bob must bring you to my house, and you must play with her there. But, now," she went on, "I want you to tell me all you can about yourselves. Do you remember your mother, Bob?"
"Please'm," he said eagerly, "do you think as 'ow 'e'll let me take Willie to 'im?" "What do you mean, dear?" she asked. "Why 'im as we was told about to-night." "Do you mean Jesus?" she asked. Bob nodded. "Yes, dear," was the answer. "He wants Willie and you too. Have you ever heard about Jesus before?" "No," was the answer.
I do like you and the master. I'll ask Jane to learn me better. You see if I don't. Oh, please'm, say you'll try me!" What could I say but "yes," and for a day or two Joe did better, but we were a small party, and the waiting was easy; but shortly we were to have a large dinner-party, and as the time drew near, Joe became quite pale and anxious.
Are we near Elverston? ''Twill be a mile, Miss: and please'm to mind I had no finger in't. 'Thanks thank you you're very good I shall always thank you, Tom, as long as I live! At length we entered Elverston. I think I was half wild. I don't know how I got into the hall. I was in the oak-parlour, I believe, when I saw cousin Monica. I was standing, my arms extended.
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