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"Good morning, sir," greeted the boys, pausing in their work long enough to touch their hats, after which they continued unpacking the dishes. "Morning, boys. I see you are up early and getting right at it. That's right. No showman was ever made out of a sleepy-head. Where did you sleep last night?" "In a wagon on a pile of canvas," answered Phil.
"Rolled oat I do not find him," he heard once. And again: "Where the clean towels they are, that I do not discover." Weary smiled sleepily and took another nap. The cook's manner of announcing breakfast was such that it awoke even Jack Bates, notoriously a sleepy-head, and Cal Emmett who was almost as bad.
He drowsily offered a night robe to the marquis. I was on pins and needles; but the marquis was in a mood to be easily deceived, took the man for a mere sleepy-head, and made a joke of the matter.
"He will lie there safely till I come back," she thought. Presently, however, Sleepy-head opened his eyes and thought he would like to take a walk out in the fresh air. So he crept out of the nest and through the long grass that nodded over the hole in the bank.
"I don't care how long it is if I am paid for my time." Curtis opened the door with a pass-key, and found Julius dozing in a chair in the hall. "Wake up, you sleepy-head," he said. "Has anything happened since I left here?" "Yes, sir; the boy tried to get away." "Did he? I don't see how he could do that. You kept the door bolted, didn't you?"
He drowsily offered a night robe to the marquis. I was on pins and needles; but the marquis was in a mood to be easily deceived, took the man for a mere sleepy-head, and made a joke of the matter.
But I got such a dreadful turn, Jeremiah, before I went off a-dreaming, that I think it must be that. 'Yoogh! Sleepy-Head! said Mr Flintwinch, 'what are you talking about? 'Such a strange noise, Jeremiah, and such a curious movement. In the kitchen here just here.
"Oh, Hazel," he cried, "I've had the loveliest dream!" "You old sleepy-head," she answered, "you lay abed dreaming when you might be out playing in the fresh air." "Hazel," Bushy-Tail began, teetering up and down on the branch in his excitement, "I'm sick of peanuts, aren't you?" "No," she answered, "I love them. Mother says they make my coat thick and sleek."
Jeanne was kneeling by the window, her head thrown back and the moonlight on her upturned face. When she woke in the dawn the Maid was already up, trussing the points of her breeches and struggling with her long boots. She was crooning the verse of a ballad: "Serais je nonette' Crois que non " and looking with happy eyes at the cool morning light on the forest. "Up, sleepy-head," she cried.
Missy didn't think she was sleepy, but, desiring to be alone with her bewildered thoughts, she went upstairs and lay down. The better to think things over, she closed her eyes; and when she opened them to her amazement there was Aunt Isabel standing beside the bed a radiant vision in pink organdy this time and saying: "Wake up, sleepy-head! It's nearly six o'clock!"
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