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The most that Teeny-bits could hope for was a place on the scrub, but that meant drudgery of the worst sort and a daily mauling that was enough to take the courage out of larger boys than he. "They'll make Hamburger steak out of you!" warned Snubby Turner. "You'd better not do it." "Good night, Teeny-bits! do you want to commit suicide!" said Fred Harper. "I'll hang a wreath on your door."
For several days, whatever her cause of annoyance might be, she preserved silence, till one evening, when expanding the nostrils of her little snubby nose, she thus addressed her mistress: "The gracious lady must be so good as to give out to the cook just twice as much coffee as usual; because if things are to go on in this way, we cannot do with less.
Kitty unstrung her bow with a vicious jerk, and went back to her place, while Barr-Saggott was trying to pretend that he enjoyed snapping the bracelet on the snubby girl's raw, red wrist. It was an awkward scene most awkward. Every one tried to depart in a body and leave Kitty to the mercy of her Mamma. But Cubbon took her away instead, and the rest isn't worth printing.
The worst of it was that there seemed to be nothing that he could do except await developments; he thought of going to Snubby Turner and demanding an explanation of the part that Snubby had played in breaking into Tracey Campbell's room, but he could not bring himself to make what would be nothing less than a serious accusation of his friend. He determined to wait.
Then Bunny and Susan and Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes begged Grandpa Grumbles to tell what had become of Bushy-Tail, but Grandpa Grumbles would only say, "I am so deaf 'tis hard to hear, Come, speak a little louder, dear." Then Bunny spoke into his right ear, and Susan spoke into his left ear, and asked him to tell where he had left Bushy-Tail. Grandpa Grumbles shook his head and said,
"Keep it up, Snubby," said Teeny-bits. "You're putting life into the scrub." "If I'll come up to your room to-night, will you give me a few pointers about running with the ball?" asked Snubby as the two approached the Gannett Hall steps. "Come up right after supper and we'll talk for half an hour; then I'll have to study," said Teeny-bits. Snubby Turner came but not to talk about football.
They cried, "Tell us a story, please tell us a story." Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes danced this way, and that way, before the mirror and cried out together, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes." The Seventeen Little Bears clapped their little paws and cried, "Tell it again, tell it again!"
At last he said to Bunny and Susan, "One day I heard Snubby Nose talking as he stood before a mirror, and he said," "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Tippy Toes." Now this Little Cotton-Tail dances before the mirror, and he says, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answers, "Snubby Nose."
All the animals cheered when he entered, and crowded round to congratulate him and say nice things about his courage, and his cleverness, and his fighting qualities; but Toad only smiled faintly, and murmured, 'Not at all! Or, sometimes, for a change, 'On the contrary! Otter, who was standing on the hearthrug, describing to an admiring circle of friends exactly how he would have managed things had he been there, came forward with a shout, threw his arm round Toad's neck, and tried to take him round the room in triumphal progress; but Toad, in a mild way, was rather snubby to him, remarking gently, as he disengaged himself, 'Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat bore the brunt of the fighting; I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing. The animals were evidently puzzled and taken aback by this unexpected attitude of his; and Toad felt, as he moved from one guest to the other, making his modest responses, that he was an object of absorbing interest to every one.
For some reason Jerry had taken a great liking to the genial Snubby, and when he received a call from that young man down in his basement room, his seamed features took on an expression that might have caused Mr. Stevens to add the adjectives happy and harmless to the "amiable murderer." "I have an idea, Jerry," said Snubby.
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