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Updated: May 18, 2025
The boatman rowed till the tether-rope was out at full stretch; his Excellency coaxed and entreated the mare to enter the water, and "shoo-ed!" and "shaa-ed!" and called her a stupid creature, whilst I cracked my whip and jumped about, and rattled my hat, and made as much noise as people usually do on such occasions.
"Master Percy Neville Neville, indeed, Percy!" she exclaimed; "yes, yes oh, yes the dear boy! Those other geese were after me yes, geese, indeed, chasing me down the sidewalk yes, sidewalk, geese they were geese and he came, the dear boy came and shoo-ed them away shoo-ed them, yes, shoo-ed, indeed, shoo-ed."
"She is a hateful old Norah, Mammy," she burst out at last. "Ruth Giant wants me to be her little pet mouse. I heard her tell Robert. And she tossed me the nicest bit of cake I ever tasted. It was frosted and stuffed with strawberry jam. "Then that horrid old Norah Maid came in and shoo-ed me with her broom. I hid under the doll's bed.
Top-knot, tired of her hidden nest, or of the story-telling, and resolved on escape. Eyebright ran after, and shoo-ed her downstairs. Then she came back laughing, and said, "How silly we were! Go on, Laura." But the nerves of the party were too shaky still to enjoy robber-stories, and Eyebright, perceiving this, made a diversion. "I know what we all want," she said; "some apples.
Anty Hill had been a hard working, honest ant all her life and she felt that this honor was a reward for all that she had done to bring Sandy up as a good and honest citizen of the kingdom. She bustled about busily, and every time Sandy came in the house she shoo-ed him out and told him to go take care of the horses and cows, By and by she called him in and bade him put on his best clothes.
We ruled spaces for the letters to go in, and did it very neatly. When we went to bed we stuck it in our bedroom window with stamp-paper. In the morning when Oswald drew up his blind there was quite a crowd of kids looking at the card. Mrs. Beale came out and shoo-ed them away as if they were hens. And we did not have to explain the card to her at all. She never said anything about it.
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