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"Good by, Prudy," said Horace, climbing into the stage-coach, quite out of breath. He had run all the way to the post office just for the sake of seeing her again. "Good by, Prudy. You're the cunningest little spud! If you lived out West I'd just go a-flyin'." Nobody knew whether Horace cried or not, for nobody saw him till dinner time, but then he looked very sober indeed.
Prudy said she always knew when papa was pleased, for then he always "patted his whiskers." The table was very attractive, and everybody had a fine appetite. After Mr. Parlin had drank a cup of delicious coffee, he no longer remembered that he was tired. He looked upon the merry group around him, and said to his wife, "I see, my dear, you are disposed to make the best of our misfortunes.
"But, then, overhead how beautiful it is!" said Prudy. "I should think the dirty earth would be ashamed to look up at such a clear sky." "But the sky don't mind," returned Horace; "it always overlooks dirt." "How very sharp we are getting!" laughed auntie; "we have begun the day brilliantly. Any more remarks from anybody?"
"Hush," said Susy. "Cousin Grace came two thousand miles to see us, and grandma promised her this party, and she had it." "There, now, Susy," said Prudy, much grieved, "I've got a cent, and I was goin' to buy you some shiny shoes, but now I shan't." Grace and Susy could not help laughing, and poor tired little Prudy could not bear that. "There," cried she, "don't you do that again!
"Why, I've been a-resting all the time," said Prudy, laughing. "Well, that doesn't make any difference, Miss Honey Drop," said Johnny, taking her by the shoulders, while Dotty dragged her feet. There was great laughing and scrambling, during which Prudy swallowed a crumb the wrong way, and was finally carried into school on a litter.
"O, mother," sobbed Louise, returning with the water, "I didn't mean to be so hasty; but you might have known I would: you should have sent me out of the room." This was very much the way Prudy talked when she did wrong: she had a funny way of blaming other people. It is always unsafe to tell even joyful news too suddenly; but Louise's thoughtlessness had not done so much harm as they all feared.
"A nape!" echoed Dotty, pointing at it, and laughing. "O, my! you don' know nothin' at all but just do you, Prudy Parlin? Funny gell to keep school! Didn't you never see a monkey? I've seen 'em dancing tummy-tum-tum, and a man making music with a little mite of a churn." "Well, perhaps this is a monkey, and ape is its baby name," said Prudy, doubtfully.
"Excuse me for smiling," said Prudy; "but you look as if you had fallen into the inkstand. It is so funny!" Dotty was not at all amused herself; but after she was dressed in clean clothes, she felt very happy, and enjoyed her supper remarkably well. The thought that they "didn't know how to live without her" gave a relish to every mouthful. It was a delightful evening to the little wanderer.
"Then I'll I'll be just as good as a lady, and I won't kiss her no more," replied little Prudy between her sobs, at the same time prying open baby's mouth with her busy fingers. "Why, where's her teef? When you goin' to put in her teef?" "O," said Susy, in an ecstasy, "isn't she such a velvet darling? What cunning little footsie-tootsies! Shaped just like a flatiron!
"Was that why he sent his objections to mamma?" asked Dotty, in a low voice. "He sent his respects to mother, if that's what you mean; and in the same letter he said, 'Give oceans of love to Prudy. As if it wasn't bad enough to break my heart, without trying to drown me," murmured Prudy, with dripping eyes. "I don't see what you're crying for," broke in her little sister.
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