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Updated: September 9, 2025
Betty's little lamb, they called him, and Betty's shadow, and Betty's sticking-plaster, because everywhere she went there was Davy just at her heels. All the Appleton children were boys, three younger and two older than Davy, whose last birthday cake should have had eight candles if there had been any celebration of the event.
'Hasn't Lord Leicester bought Spanish? never looking off the sticking-plaster, nor taking the smallest notice of the telegrams. 'Not that I know of. Are they good things? 'I don't know; some people think so. Here a message was handed in, and something was whispered in his ear. 'Very well, put it down. 'From Paris, said Sir Anthony, guessing perhaps at its contents.
Over the mantel-piece he was represented in a hunting costume, on his favorite horse; there was a sticking-plaster silhouette of him in the widow's bedroom, and a miniature in the drawing-room, where he was drawn in a gown of black and gold, holding a gold-tasselled trencher cap with one hand, and with the other pointing to a diagram of Pons Asinorum.
I could never have believed we should have been so deceived. How you managed to disguise your voice I can't think, and to make yourself look so awful. You are as white as a clown; and your teeth, Nan! What has become of your teeth?" "Covered them with black sticking-plaster, that's all. Not even for your benefit, my dears, could I extract my two front molars.
"Sakes alive! Now what you done to yourself, William?" "Nothin' this time, Miss Bailey. I I done tore a book and jest want to fix it." When Bill returned to the bunk-house with the "sticking-plaster," Pete and Andy both said they were sorry for the occurrence, but Bill was mighty suspicious of their sincerity.
I heard his deep voice saying something about the 'work of God in this place. But what I noticed specially and the sight made me forget my aching hinder parts was that he had a swollen eye, and two strips of sticking-plaster on his cheek. In this plain story of mine there will be so many wild doings ere the end is reached, that I beg my reader's assent to a prosaic digression.
"Yes, perhaps we'd better take some; and, I say, we must have bandages on our heads as well as the sticking-plaster." "Of course. Then, I say, as soon as ever we've had breakfast we'll talk to Joeboy." "Exactly," I replied. "He'll be half-mad to go, and when we've said all we want to him we'll come back and lie down again." "Oh! What for?"
"Kenneth," said Eunice, bending down beside him; "here's sister! wake him up, if you can, 'Liza. Papa wouldn't let Zaidee go to sleep last winter when she fell off the bedstead and bumped her head so. Baby! wake up, pet!" and she kissed him, eagerly. In a few minutes, Cricket came running out of the house. "We can't find any sticking-plaster, and we've looked everywhere.
Blair," he began. "Did you hear what I said?" Blair said, icily and the leaf was polished! Blair looked at it critically, then laughed and tossed the old man a dollar. "There's some sticking-plaster for you. And Harris, look here: those things the finger-bowls; don't go and get mixed up on 'em, will you? They come last."
"They deceived me, captain," said Briscoe. "So they did me, sir, at the first squint. I thought we were in for a scrimmage, and that before long I should be cutting up sticking-plaster and putting it on. Two fine old sticks of timber those, squire, and they must have come down some fierce falls to be stripped of their boughs like that.
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