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"An aeroplane!" he burst forth in thrilling tones; "and the sillies down there think it's just a frightfully big bird about to carry them off. Hey, Frank, perhaps the government has got one of the new contraptions after all!" "Go slow," said Frank. "Suppose you look a bit closer, my boy. Isn't there something familiar about that same craft up yonder?" "It's it's a biplane, Frank!" gurgled Andy.
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Mollie. "Wait until I take a look. No use sounding a false alarm." Grace and Betty wakened at the sound of the others' voices, and asked what was going on. "I'll look out and see what it," volunteered Betty, her room being nearest the window. She slipped from bed and a moment later called: "Sillies! It's nothing but Mr. Franklin's dog keeping guard around the house.
All remained in an attitude of expectancy, and could hear strange sounds that seemed to come from under the boards forming the floor of the barn; which building had not always been used for drying tobacco alone. "Now what d'ye suppose the sillies are poking poles under there, for?" ejaculated William; "and just when I was going to propose that we pull up a board, and crawl through the hole."
"But who's taking care of you?" persisted Paul. "Oh, Miss Dora and Miss Bee said they would, but they always let us do anything," said Effie easily, "it was such a lovely chance." "Well, I think you are big sillies," said Pauline virtuously, but she began untwisting Effie's tight brown curls and twisting them together again in the way she had ever loved to do.
"You mustn't cry, my own child," sobbed Mrs. Gray. "For I always cry when I see other people doing it, and it's very bad for my old eyes, you know." "You are so good to me!" said Anne. "It makes me cry because I'm so happy." "Well, well!" exclaimed Mrs. Gray, drying her eyes and beginning to laugh. "What a couple of sillies we are, to be sure. Now go, Anne, to my dressmaker, Mrs.
She actually laughed over Elsie's aggrieved narration of the affair of the dress closet, and coolly informed her cousin that she should have locked her door before attempting any such maneuver. The only grain of consolation which she bestowed was, "You needn't feel so bad about what those sillies think of you. They'll have something more serious to think about before long.
'I shouldn't have minded THAT, Dicky said, 'because I could easily have taken it all off again if they'd only said so. But the sillies went and propped up a milk-pan against the window. They never took the trouble to notice I had mended it. So the wretched thing pushed the window open all by itself directly they propped it up, and it tumbled through into the moat, and they are most awfully waxy.
She said Sallie was stubborn, and she must be, to endure so many disappointments and not give up and go home." "The sillies!" said Walter. "How about it, kid? Would you run away from a good home, even if it were in the country?" "Not if the eats came reg'lar and they didn't beat me too much," declared Inez, repeating her former declaration.
"But why didn't they?" and Bernice also looked bewildered. "Think a minute, you sillies. Nobody knew the exact date of the year one until after the year one was here. In fact, I don't think they began to count right away, anyhow. But certainly they didn't know five hundred and thirty-seven years before!" "Oh, I see!" cried Bernice.
"Push, push!" she urged the children; and they pushed with all the force of their tiny hands; but she was heavy, and they could scarcely stir the swing. "Push!" she urged again. "Oh, the big sillies, they can't!" In the pavilion, Madame Deberle had just felt a slight chill.
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