United States or Mauritania ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
For the life of me I couldn't make up my mind what to say about them, so I sent the Byrd home by Tolly, who was going to take Edith out to see how her okra was progressing, and stayed in the safe shelter of my home. On the Byrd's rompers I pinned this note: Strike, if you will, my young back, But spare, oh spare, this little brat! There are all kinds of poetry in the world.
Sit still and watch him." Baby William did sit still for a little while, but not for very long. His mother held to the loose part of his blue and white rompers so he would not get far away, but, after a bit, she rather forgot about him, in talking to Ted and Jan about what they were to do and not to do in camp.
Spaniel's list, painstakingly written out in her straggling script: 8 towls 6 pymjarm Mr Gishing 12 rompers 3 blowses 6 cribb sheets 1 Mr. After contemplating this list, Gissing went to his desk and began to study his accounts. A resolve was forming in his mind. The summer evenings sounded a very different music from that thin wheedling of April.
When everything was in neat order, Mary Jane put on her dark blue rompers and big blue sun hat, and they went downstairs. "There now," said Grandmother; "we're all fixed. And before I do another thing, I'm going to take you all around and show you everything you want to see." They started down the back walk toward the barn that looked so interesting.
"He is coming now," said Becky, who sat by the window. "Look, Aunt Claudia." Tramping up the hill towards the second gate was a tall figure in khaki. Resting like a rose-petal on one shoulder was a mite of a child in pink rompers. "He is bringing Fiddle with him," Becky gasped. "Oh, Aunt Claudia, he is bringing Fiddle." Aunt Claudia rose and looked out "Well," she said, "let her come.
"You know," said Kit, "we lived right on the edge of Long Island Sound before we moved up to Connecticut, and ever since I was in rompers, I can remember going away somewhere to the seashore every summer, but I think your lake is ever so much more interesting than the ocean. Somehow it seems to belong to one more.
He told her of Vanity Fair and of how he felt about Becky. "If she had been content to earn an honest living," Jane stated severely, "the story would have had a different ending." "Well, she wanted things," Tommy said. "Most women do." Jane jabbed her needle into a length of pink gingham which, when finished, would be rompers for a youngster across the street. "I do; and I intend to have them."
She yawned and asked the man nearest her if he couldn't run in somewhere and get her a glass of water. The man apologized in some embarrassment. He could not have moved hand or foot. He could not have scratched his own ear.... As the first blast of the river sirens keened along the air, Olive fastened the last safety-pin in little Arthur's rompers and looked up.
After five minutes a little boy toddled into the parlor a dirty little boy clad in dirty pink rompers. His face was smudgy Roxanne wanted to take him into her lap and wipe his nose; other parts in the of his head needed attention, his tiny shoes were kicked out at the toes. Unspeakable! "What a darling little boy!" exclaimed Roxanne, smiling radiantly. "Come here to me." Mrs.
We some of us, that is!" her smile was all lenience "have suddenly decided we can dress more simply, have suddenly decided to put our girls into gingham rompers, and instead of giving them little dancing parties, let them play about like boys!
Word Of The Day