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"Content Adams," said she, "you know perfectly well that you have no big sister Solly. Now tell me the truth. Tell me you have no big sister Solly." "I have a big sister Solly," said Content. "Come, Edward," said Sally. "There is no use in staying and talking to this obstinate little girl any longer." Then she spoke to Content.
"I was talking with my big sister Solly," replied Content, with the calmness of one stating a fundamental truth of nature. The rector's face grew stern. "Content," he said, "look at me." Content looked. Looking seemed to be the instinctive action which distinguished her as an individual. "Have you a big sister Solly?" asked the rector. His face was stern, but his voice faltered. "Yes, sir."
It did not stay long, as Bob felt that such kisess should be returned without delay. "Hu-ray," cheered Solly Jake, waving his whisky jug, "tale ended right! Time f'r 'nother drink, boys!" and standing up to his middle in water he proceeded to demonstrate his idea. Curley Coppers the Jack "On Selby Flat we live in style; We'll stay right here till we make our pile.
As I leaned over the side, Ching heaved a deep sigh. "What's the matter?" I whispered. "Ching so velly mislable," he whispered back. "Mr Blooke think him velly bad man. Think Ching want to give evelybody to pilate man. Ching velly velly solly." "Hist! look out!"
"I have known such cases," he said when Sally had finished. "What did you do for them?" Sally asked, anxiously. "Nothing. Such cases have to be cured by time. Children get over these fancies when they grow up." "Do you mean to say that we have to put up with big sister Solly until Content is grown up?" asked Sally, in a desperate tone. And then Jim came in. Content had run up-stairs.
"O, you needn't fuss with that paddle any longer, Johnny Eastman," said Solly, who had hitherto paid no heed to the little boy's vigorous but useless struggles; "you just drop it; it doesn't amount to anything." "What! what!" cried Johnny, looking very much insulted. "How are you ever going to get ashore without ME, I'd like to know?"
Not that it was so very distant; indeed, it was in full sight, "so near, and yet so far!" If the wind had only been quiet, instead of "cracking its cheeks!" But, as it was, the boat rocked fearfully, and seemed to be blowing directly away from the land. Solly and the deaf and dumb boy looked at each other with eyes which seemed to say, "The thing is coming to a pretty pass!
Davy's fishing friends have since called upon us: Mr. Solly, a great mineralogist, and Mr. Children, a man of Kent. I am working away at "Patronage," but cannot at all come up to my idea of what it should be. To MRS. MARY SNEYD. ARDBRACCAN HOUSE, Nov. 1811.
"The bear made straight for me! Bear and I took a tight grip on each other and I hit straight for his heart just as he gave me a swipe in the face. "We both fell, the bear on top, and then I didn't remember anything for awhile. When I woke I felt something heavy on my stomach, but I couldn't see anything for blood." "Hu-ray!" cheered old Solly Jake, thinking the tale was finished.
"As it happens," said White, "it was signed by you fellows in my presence." The colonel shook his head. "Obdurate to the last, brazening it out to the end why not make a frank confession to an old business associate, Solly? I came here to see you about that cheque." "That's the game, is it?" said White. "You are going to charge me with forgery, and suppose I spill it?"
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