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Cobb. "There wa'n't many names left when your mother got through choosin'! You've got a powerful good memory! I guess it ain't no trouble for you to learn your lessons, is it?" "Not much; the trouble is to get the shoes to go and learn 'em. These are spandy new I've got on, and they have to last six months. Mother always says to save my shoes.
My box from home isn't here yet, and I am as eager as you are to see what my nieces and nephews have sent me." "A walk is just what I need to work off my surplus energy," declared Tabitha enthusiastically. "May we take some crackers to feed the swans?" "And oh, may I take my kodak, my spandy new Christmas kodak, for some pictures?" asked Grace eagerly.
Then there was quite a bustle to find an apron for Horace, and to make sure that his little stained hands were "spandy clean," and "fluffed" all over with flour, from his wrists to the tips of his fingers. Grace said she wished it wasn't so much trouble to attend to boys; and, after all, Horace only pulled a small piece of the candy, and dropped half of that on the nice white floor.
It's a very good one;" and Demi looked so earnest and full of faith, that Dan did not laugh at his quaint fancy, but said, soberly, "I don't think there is a lock strong enough to keep my badness shut up. Any way my room is in such a clutter I don't know how to clear it up." "You keep your drawers in the cabinet all spandy nice; why can't you do the others?" "I ain't used to it.
"Yes, yes, spandy nice, and Meg has cologne on hers," cried Jo, adding with a laugh as they went on, "I do believe Marmee would ask that if we were all running away from an earthquake." "It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief," replied Meg, who had a good many little 'aristocratic tastes' of her own.
It's faded, and it's homely; but it's spandy clean! I sha'n't let it stay raveled long. And I've got things. Just wait till my trunk comes. My ottoman, I mean. That's what it turns into. Have you got a stuffed cover to your trunk, Katie?" Kate lifted up her eyebrows for permission to break silence. "Of course you can, when you're asked a question. You've had time now for second thoughts.
"Are there four of you?" Miss Salome asked, abruptly. It was the Little Blue Overalls' turn to start now. "Me? gracious! four o' me? I guess you're out o' your head, aren't Oh, you mean child'en! Well, there's five, 'thout countin' the spandy new one she's too little to count." Five six, with the spandy new one!
I don't think the Parian Psyche Laurie gave lost any of its beauty because John put up the bracket it stood upon, that any upholsterer could have draped the plain muslin curtains more gracefully than Amy's artistic hand, or that any store-room was ever better provided with good wishes, merry words, and happy hopes than that in which Jo and her mother put away Meg's few boxes, barrels, and bundles, and I am morally certain that the spandy new kitchen never could have looked so cozy and neat if Hannah had not arranged every pot and pan a dozen times over, and laid the fire all ready for lighting the minute 'Mis.
"O auntie," said she, "I'm going to wash my hands spandy clean, and then are you willing there is any thing I can have to eat?" "Cookies, if you like, my dear." "O auntie," cried Prudy, eager with a new thought, "won't you tell me where them raisins is the ones you didn't put in the pudding? Tell me, O, do, do! If you will, I won't touch 'em, true as the world."
So they initiated her into the mysteries of the new parsonage with its pretty, cheerful rooms, unexpected cosy corners, tiny kitchen and cunning little cupboard, and for a week she fairly revelled in the playhouse, as she immediately named the spandy new cottage, amusing the baby, who promptly attached himself to her with the devotion of a lap-dog, dusting furniture, washing dishes, and causing her usual commotion trying to help where her presence was only a hindrance.
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