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Updated: June 15, 2025
I wouldn't like to think that little 'un was treated cruel, and her sperit broke she has got a fine sperit, bless her; I wouldn't like it to be broke. I don't care for the little boy. There's nothing in 'im." "Well, stop talking now," said Mother Rodesia. "They must be missed at the Rectory by this time, and they'll be sendin' people out to look for 'em.
She sat wide awake and gazed hard at the woman, whose dark eyes were seen to flash now and then as the party jolted over the roads. "Tell him to go k'icker," said Diana. "I must get home afore Uncle William goes to bed. Aunt Jane might beat me again, and I don't want to be beated. Tell him to go k'icker, Mother 'Odesia." Mother Rodesia was most kind and obliging.
I's sossy," she continued, looking full at Mother Rodesia as she spoke, "that you big, big woman told such awfu' lies. But, now that we has come, we'll take a little hare soup. Orion, you stand near me, and don't any of you dirty peoples come up too close, 'cos I can't abear dirty peoples. I is the gweatest shot in all the world, and Orion, he's a giant."
They were still under the shelter of the great woods which extended for miles over that part of the country. "We had best begin to change their clothes now," said Mother Rodesia. "They are both as sound as nails, and I don't want the clothes to be seen by Ben, for he's safe to pawn 'em, and if he pawns 'em the police may get 'em, and then the children may be traced, and we may get into hot water."
She gave him a keen glance from her piercing black eyes. "What wight has you to speak to me in that sort of style?" she said. "You isn't my uncle, and I isn't going to have nothing to do with you." "There," said Mother Rodesia; "did I say one word too much for her?" The man burst into a loud laugh. "No, that you didn't," he said; "and aint you frightened of me, missy?"
"I isn't s'eepy any longer," said Diana, sitting bolt upright in the cart. "Oh, what a funny dwess I has on. Where is my nice b'ack dwess, and my pinafore, and my shoes and socks?" "Well, dear," said Mother Rodesia, "you were so dead asleep, and the pony got that lame we couldn't stir hand nor foot, so I thought it best to put a little nightdress on you."
"But what a funny one," said Diana, gazing with curious admiration at the stout, sack-like garment. "It's the best poor Mother Rodesia has, my dear. I'm awful poor, you know." "Is you?" asked Diana. "Yes, dear." "And does you mind?" asked Diana. "Yes, dear; 'cos when people are poor they can't get bread to eat, and then they can't get nice clothes like you, little missy.
When Mother Rodesia said this the old woman at the door of the principal tent rose slowly and came to meet them. "Well, Rodesia," she said, "and so you has found these little strangers in the wood? What purty little dears!" "Yes, I have found them," said Mother Rodesia, "and I have brought them home to supper. After supper we are to send them home. They hail from the Rectory.
Diana stared very hard indeed when these words were uttered. She had not the faintest idea what a "pund apiece" meant. Mother Rodesia seemed to consider. "And you may think yourself in rare luck," continued the man; "for, remember, if it is known " Here he walked to the farthest end of the room, and Mother Rodesia followed him.
It's sort of painful when it's like that; aint it?" "Yes," answered Orion. He went up to his sister, and took her hand. "Come along, Di," he said. "Do let this nice woman give us our supper." "You may be sure I won't give it," said the woman, "unless both you little children ask me in a very perlite voice. You must say, 'Please, Mother Rodesia." "I can't say that keer sort of name," said Diana.
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