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Updated: May 2, 2025
Isn't he pretty, Miss? and I'm Sir Simon Sugarstick so called after old Sir Simon, ma'am; and I'm so tall and straight, Miss, and slim ain't I? and ever so sweet, my honey, when you come to know me, just like a sugarstick; ain't I, Lolly, boy? 'I'm Miss Ruthyn, tell them, Madame, I said, stamping on the ground, and very much frightened. 'Be quaite, Maud.
"Bedad, then, if sinse was all that ailed them, the pair of them is as 'cute as a couple of young foxes. I mind on'y a day or so after they'd been in it, I met the laste one on the road, and I comin' home wid be chance a sugarstick in me basket. So, just to be makin' friends like, I gave it a bit for itself, and a bit for the other that I seen comin' along.
So wid that I'd take a race home and be tellin' you all the iligant thing was after happenin'. And in the middle of it who'd come landin' in but me father and mother, and little Dan. And then, if it isn't the grand cup of tay I'd be makin' her, ay begorra would I, and a sugarstick to stir it wid." Johanna's vision of the millennium was broken in upon querulously by Thady.
He wanted her cruel bad, he said, and there was nothin' ailed him, and he wouldn't like to look for blackberries along the hedge or to throw stones for Bran or even to be given a whole ha'penny to go buy himself a grand sugarstick down at the shop he only wanted his mammy. Such was his attitude and refrain all that day and the next.
Such life as the little place could boast was in full stir; every now and then an ox-cart or a little hooded gig would pass along the bridge, and townsmen in brown straw hats would meet half-way with elaborate salutations and linger long to gossip, and bare-headed girls with long plaited pigtails present their baskets and bundles to be peered into or prodded suspiciously by the customs officer stationed at the Baden frontier-post, striped in brilliant crimson and yellow, like a giant sugarstick.
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