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Updated: July 29, 2025
It is a very ponderous poker of unusual size and the commonest appearance, but with a massive knob at the upper end which was wont to project far and high above the hearth. It was to this seat that Slyboots elevated himself by his own choice, and became the Kitchen Crow. Here he spent hours watching the cook, and taking tit-bits behind her back.
Was this the queen of whom that athletic young gentleman was silently dreaming as he swung over the pulsing mountains of the North Sea? This slyboots! This most infantile coax! I wish some half-dozen of the most charming young ladies in England would only begin coaxing, and coax to as good purpose!
Double-stockings and slyboots." And I took him on my lap. Chris put his arms round my neck, and buried his cheek against mine. "I won't be sly, Mary," he whispered; and then, hugging me as he hugs Lady Catherine, he added, "For I do love you; for you are a darling, and I do really think it always was yours." "What, Chris?" "If not," said Chris, "why was it always called MARY'S MEADOW?"
He's an old slyboots, who has had some post, I fancy, in the administration of the national domain, or something of that kind, under government; in which, I think, he must have been employed in the departments suppressed under the Empire." "Yes?" said la Peyrade.
But you can't sneak out of answerin' me like that, Miss Slyboots," Phoebe continued, in high spirits. Seating herself on the arm of her sister's chair, she put her arms about her neck and, bending over, whispered: "Tell me honest, now, Rebecca, did Joe Chandler ever propose to you?" "No, he never did!" the elder sister exclaimed, rising suddenly. "Now, Mr.
"It was A; and though I may not, by my Royal Master's orders, tell Your Royal Highness the Princess's name, whom he fondly, madly, devotedly, rapturously loves, I may show you her portrait," says this slyboots: and leading the Princess up to a gilt frame, he drew a curtain which was before it. O goodness! the frame contained A LOOKING-GLASS! and Angelica saw her own face!
Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing: "Tum-pa, tum-too; Tum-pa, tum-too!" Every animal and bird he met asked him the same question: "Drumikin! Drumikin! Have you seen Lambikin?" And to each of them the little slyboots replied: "Fallen into the fire, and so will you On little Drumikin. Tum-pa, tum too; Tum-pa, tum-too; Tum-pa, tum-too!"
"She? Who?" asked he, crossing to her side. "Who? Fie, you slyboots!" she crowed with glee. "Ah, I see," said John. She stood in the path, beside a sun-dial, from which she appeared to be taking the time of day, a crumbling ancient thing of grey stone, green and brown with mosses; and she was smiling pleasantly to herself the while, all unaware of the couple who watched her from above.
And what do you think, papa, one of the little fellows actually comes regularly and weeds our beds, because we haven't time to attend to them ourselves. He did it at first without any prompting but that of gratitude, and now some of the others help him, and so they keep our garden tidy as well as their own." "Yes, yes, Slyboots, but who put the idea of keeping their own tidy, into their heads?
I generally get a new hat once a week, and as for gloves, if anybody likes me " That night in her musty bedroom Glory wrote home while little Slyboots slept: "'The best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft aglee. Witness me! "I intended to send you some Christmas presents, but the snow has been so industrious that not a mouse has stirred if he could help it.
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