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'Well, we've got sixpence, said Flossy, 'that's lots and lots of money; but the night is a long way off, Peter, and I'm so hungry. I've eaten up all the crusts that you and Snip-snap left for me, but I'm still as hungry as possible. Mightn't I spend a halfpenny or so of our sixpence in getting a good dinner for you and me and Snip-snap? Peter put his hand to his brow, and began to reflect.
'No, she hasn't, said Peter; 'we'll take her away first, you and me, Flossy you and me and Snip-snap we'll take our little baby away, and we'll hide her. Dickory shall never go to no workhouse! Here Dickory looked up again at Peter, who looked down at her and kissed her, and two tears splashed from his eyes on her little face. 'Oh, what a dear baby she is! said Flossy.
With all its faults the style has the merits of masculine directness. The inversions are not such as to complicate the construction. As Boswell remarks, he never uses a parenthesis; and his style, though ponderous and wearisome, is as transparent as the smarter snip-snap of Macaulay. It is perhaps needless to give examples of a tendency which marks almost every page of his writing.
"Snip-snap" went the bills all over the marshlands, and gobble-gobble went the poor worms; and so for about a week the birds had such a feast that their skins all got quite tight with the thick jacket of fat that was spread beneath them to keep the cold out, and all their feathers began to stick up so that they had plenty of work to smooth them down.
Peter would sing all kinds of nursery rhymes for the baby, and walk up and down with it, and even run with it until his arms ached very badly indeed. But after all, the one who suffered most in the cause of the baby was Snip-snap.
'But suppose, mother, Pete and I play with the baby, and we make it so happy that it doesn't cry? answered little Flossy. Mrs Franklin gave a short sniff, and said in decidedly an unbelieving voice, 'You may try your best, my dear, of course. Then Flossy looked at Peter, and Peter looked back at her, and they called Snip-snap and went out of the room.
I dare not go to mommy, for I know she'd make me give it up, and dadda being away, and Tibbie in a snip-snap, I have no one to and perhaps I'd never tell thee to shame Tibbie, but because I need advice and " "A man with half an eye would know you were no tale-bearer, Miss Janice," her companion assured her. Thus prompted and enticed, the girl poured out the whole story.
It was devoted to the children, and even when it was sending forth its wail for more food and some real mother's love, it would stop crying and give a clear hearty little laugh if Flossy shook her head of tangled red-brown hair in front of it, or if Snip-snap, the mongrel terrier, stood on his hind-legs and begged to it.
I expected great information from such an assemblage, but 'twas but a snip-snap of talk remarks passed from one to another, but served as it were on massy plate long words, and too many of 'em. Dull, my dear, dull! And so 'twill always be when people aim to be clever. They do these things better in France, where they have no fear of laughter and the women sparkle without a visible machinery.
Amos, following their gaze, saw that De Catinat was seated with his arm round Adele, while her head rested upon his shoulder. "Ah, if I but knew their snip-snap, lippetty-chippetty lingo! Saw one ever such a sight! Amos, lad, what is the French for 'a shameless hussy'?" "Nay, nay, Ephraim. Surely one may see such a sight, and think no harm of it, on our side of the water. "Never, Amos.
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