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As he took his place and the Japanese girl came up to get his order, Blix overheard him say in English: "Bring tea for-um leddy." "He had to speak in English to her," she whispered; "isn't that splendid! Did you notice that, Snooky?" On the way home Blix was wondering how she should pass her evening. She was to have made one of a theatre party where Jack Carter was to be present.
And then Blix, seeing him thus acquiescent, said: "Well, it's all settled; Papum and I both wrote last night." "When are you going?" "The first week in January." "Well, that's not so AWFULLY soon. But who will take your place here? However in the world would your father get along without you and Snooky and Howard?" "Aunt Dodd is going to come."
"Pa, make Howard stop!" "Howard!" exclaimed Travis; "what is it now?" "Howard's squirting watermelon-seeds at me," whined Snooky, "and Pa won't make him stop." "Oh, I didn't so!" vociferated Howard. "I only held one between my fingers, and it just kind of shot out." "You'll come upstairs with me in just five minutes," announced Travis, "and get ready for Sunday-school."
The clasp of the miniature stays around her small body was like the embrace of a little lover, and awoke in her ideas that were as vague, as immature and unformed as the straight little figure itself. When Snooky and Howard had seated themselves, but one chair at the end of the breakfast-table, opposite Mr. Bessemer remained vacant. "Is your sister is Miss Travis going to have her breakfast now?
The Very Young Husband had been very, very angry with her angry and hurt, he said, and astonished! Snooky could not have been so sick! Look at her now! As well as ever. And to have called such a woman! Well, really he did not want to be harsh; but she must understand that she must never speak to the woman again. Never! So the next day the Very Young Wife happened to go by with the Young Husband.
Snooky was three-going-on-four, and looked something like an angel only healthier and with grimier hands. The whole neighbourhood borrowed her and tried to spoil her; but Snooky would not spoil. Alderman Mooney was down in the cellar fooling with the furnace. He was in his furnace overalls a short black pipe in his mouth. Three protesting husbands had just left.
The Very Young Wife, her lips set, her eyes flashing, advanced and seized the shrieking Snooky by one arm and dragged her away toward home and safety. Blanche Devine stood there at the fence, holding the saucer in her hand. The saucer tipped slowly, and the three cookies slipped off and fell to the grass. Blanche Devine stood staring at them a moment.
All the husbands in the block, urged on by righteously indignant wives, dropped in on Alderman Mooney after supper to see if the thing could not be stopped. The fourth of the protesting husbands to arrive was the Very Young Husband, who lived next door to the corner cottage that Blanche Devine had bought. The Very Young Husband had a Very Young Wife, and they were the joint owners of Snooky.
But at breakfast, while she was debating whether she should take with her Howard and Snooky, or "Many Inventions," she received a note from Condy, sent by special messenger: "'All our fun is spoiled, he wrote. 'I've got ptomaine poisoning from eating the creamed oysters last night, and am in for a solid fortnight spent in bed. Have passed a horrible night.
"Snooky!" shrilled a high voice. "Snooky!" A voice of horror and of wrath. "Come here to me this minute! And don't you dare to touch those!" Snooky hesitated rebelliously, one pink finger in her pouting mouth. "Snooky! Do you hear me?" And the Very Young Wife began to descend the steps of her back porch. Snooky, regretful eyes on the toothsome dainties, turned away aggrieved.
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