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"Is it a museum?" asked Freddy politely, as he and Dan peered doubtful over the dusky threshold. "Wal, no, not exactly; though it's equal to that, sonny. Folks call this here Jonah's junk-shop, Jonah being my Christian name. And things do come to us sure, from copper kettles that would serve a mess of sixty men, down to babies' bonnets."
A couple to lay down here wouldn't be so bad, I'm thinking. You could put one beside your bed and another before the door to wipe your feet on. They'd cheer the room up as well as help keep you warm. Just say the word, sonny, and you shall have 'em." "I'd like them tremendously." The kind-hearted Irishman beamed with pleasure.
Cried ever' time one was douced, an' I had to fetch him away. In our Methodist meetin's he seemed to git worked up an' pervoked, some way. An' the Presbyterians, he didn't take no stock in them at all. Ricollect, one Sunday the preacher, he preached a mighty powerful disco'se on the doctrine o' lost infants not 'lected to salvation an' Sonny? Why, he slep' right thoo it.
But talkin' about Sonny a-fallin' in love with his teachers, why, they was a time here when he wanted to give away every thing in the house to first one an' then the other. The first we noticed of it was him tellin' us how nice Miss Alviry thought his livers and gizzards was.
"What train shall I be able to take to Greentown," he managed to call after the conductor. "Don't know, sonny! Ask the ticket agent in the Lowell deepot; he's an old hand and he'll know!"
But ez for book-readin', wife an' me aint never felt called on to read no book save an' exceptin' the Holy Scriptures an', of cose, the seed catalogues. An' here Sonny, not quite twelve year old, has read five books thoo, an' some of 'em twice-t an' three times over. His "Robinson Crusoe" shows mo' wear'n tear'n what my Testament does, I'm ashamed to say.
Then he put his head forward, and whispered confidentially: "What'd you ruther do or go a-fishing?" "But why?" persisted the young man. "Widder who?" returned Watts, grinning and putting his hand to his ear. When John repeated his question the third time, McHurdie said: "I know a way you can get rich mighty quick, sonny."
The next minute a parachute shot out from the balloon; and hanging to it the form of a man could be seen. "Oh, he'll fall!" cried Freddie, all excited. "Let's catch him in something!" "He's all right," John assured the little boy. "That umbrella keeps him from coming down too quickly." "How does it?" Freddie asked. "Why, you see, sonny, the air gets under the umbrella and holds it up.
"Run home, sonny. I'm going to have a look at the soldier, too." The first bad squall broke on the headland just as Taffy started to run. It was as if a bag of water had burst right overhead, and within a quarter of a minute he was drenched to the skin. So fiercely it went howling inland along the ridge that he half expected to see the horse urged into a gallop before it.
They stole his biscuits, and made holes in his roof, and tore up the reports he wrote for the S.P.C.K. in England. Dr. Roberts made allowance for the monkeys, however. He had come to take away their sacred character, and nobody could expect them to like it. If you had asked Dr. Roberts what his difficulty was he would have shown you Sonny Sahib. The discovery was so wonderful that he had made.
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