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"He was sitting in my way on the stairs this morning, and as I could not get by, I said, 'Make room, please, Master Splodgkins; you don't own the universe. 'Eth oi doth, he lisped. 'Noime ain't thplodums. Damn th' ooniverth." It was good to hear Basil's whole-hearted laughter. "We ought to have had him to tea," he said regretfully. "He would have delighted Hal.
Miss Pritchard, I can't go on again the same I can't I can't." "You must help Miss Hayward, at any rate for a time," Hal told her; "if you didn't you would be failing him now; and even little Splodgkins doesn't mean to do that." "No, of course you're right. I can light the fire for her in the afternoon and put the kettle on. It isn't much to be alive for, but he'd say it was worth while.
He's two-and-a-halfyears old" turning to her "this remarkable person-age; and, like most gutter snipes, has developed as an ordinary child of four. He and G have debates occasionally. He wishes to be called D, because that is the letter on his front door, and 'Splodgkins hurts his dignity but he's so funny when he is indignant we can't resist teasing him."
The wildest stretch of imagination, you see, could not picture me ever looking like an angel; so he left me to my fate!" And again the humorous twisted smile delighted her small audience. "Have you seen Splodgkins lately ?" Basil asked.
I'm quite certain you could give him lots of ideas," she remarked to G. "He'd better put Splodgkins in if he wants to make it sell," said she. "Only they mightn't allow it at the libraries. Splodgkins's vocabulary is fortunately sometimes indistinguishable for his lisp." "Splodgkins couldn't be translated," put in Basil. "He sometimes comes to tea with me and G; but he is almost too exhausting.
Considering he never left the flat, it's wonderful wonderful; but he knew all the children, and they all knew him. And if you know the children you know the fathers and mothers. "Little Splodgkins, as we always called him, has been sitting like a small stone effigy on the stairs outside his door. He has patrolled the whole staircase for days, keeping the other children quiet. I told Mr.
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