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There, Prudy, think of their velvet heads and beads of eyes, waddling about this yard." "People sometimes take ducks' eggs and put them in a hen's nest," said Prudy, reflectively. "O, there now," whispered Dotty, "shouldn't you think Mrs. Gray might give me three or four eggs for carrying the milk every single night?" "Why, yes, I should; and perhaps she will."
"That's beautiful," said she, "now honest; and I did almost the whole of it myself!" After this she began to grow drowsy, and, forgetting her troubles, fell asleep, to the great relief of poor sister Prudy, who was not long in following her. Next morning Prudy awoke at nearly the usual time; but her sister was still in the land of dreams, and she stole out of the room without disturbing her.
Prudy," replied the patient, with a stifled groan; "I've truly got the ache in my head; it pricks through my hair." "I'll tell you the cause of that, my dear patient; I suspect your pillow's made of pin-feathers. Let me feel your pulse on the back of your hand your wrist, I mean. Terrible," moaned the young doctor, gazing mournfully at the ceiling; "it's stopped beating.
Dotty always came out of sleep by slow stages, and her affections were the last part of her to wake up. Just now she did not love Katie Clifford one bit, nor her own mother either. "Won't you light the lamp?" piped Flyaway. "Please don't, Fly," said Prudy; "don't talk!" "Won't you light the la-amp?" "No, we will not," said Dotty, firmly. "Won't you light the la-amp?"
"I shall watch it," replied Prudy, with a care-worn look; and they all went up the steps and entered the little picture-gallery. The windows were closed, and the odor of chemicals was so stifling, that the children almost gasped for breath. The artist seemed glad to see them, made no remarks about the wheelbarrow, though he must have noticed it, and said he would be ready in a few minutes.
"Prudy!" screamed aunt Madge, looking wildly at the boy's face, which was as white as death. "Run, tell grandpa!" cried she, and flew down the steps, and out across the field towards the river, as if she had wings on her slippers, though it seemed to her they were clogged with lead.
"Sometimes she will run about the room as well as I do, and then, in a few minutes, when she thinks of it, she will limp and take hold of chairs. Mother, isn't it just the same as a wrong story for Prudy to act that way? If I did so, you'd punish me; now, wouldn't you?" "I don't know what to think about it," said Mrs. Parlin, gravely.
"Mamma said a spine. They took her to the court-house; but they didn't hang her, 'cause she I've forgot what but they didn't. They made her marry a black man that's all I know!" "Well, there, how queer!" said Prudy, drawing a long breath. "If I was Harriet I'd rather have been hung. Was he all black?" "Yes, solid black. But I s'pose she didn't want to choke to death any more'n you do."
"Dear me," sighed Susy; "who'd ever think it was such hard work to find names?" "O, look," said Prudy, as they passed a jaded old horse; "there is a pony just exactly like this! Only it's twice as big, you know, and not a bit such a color!" "Well, there, Prudy," said Susy, disdainfully, "I thought, when you began to speak, you was going to tell something!
"O dear!" groaned Prudy, getting tired, "I never did see such fishes. I guess they don't want to be catched." "There, now you've spoke again, and scared one away," said Horace. "If it hadn't been for you I should have got, I don't know how many, by this time." Prudy's lip began to tremble, and two big round tears rose to her eyes.
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