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When this disaster was at length repaired, nothing could prevent Bettina from rushing on plates, knives, and forks. "Oh, indeed," said she to Jean, "I know very well how to lay the cloth. Ask my sister. Tell him, Susie, when I was a little girl in New York, I used to lay the cloth very well, didn't I?" "Very well, indeed," said Mrs. Scott.
Susie Smithers declared that she sat before the fire at such times and took naps, but Susie's knowledge was not always trustworthy it depended entirely on the position of the keyhole.
"Eight," she said, when the pail would hold no more. "If the pail holds two gallons, Susie." said Uncle Robert, "how many quarts are there in one gallon?" "Four." said Susie, counting on her fingers.
"Here is one," said Donald, "just ready to come up, and another close to it. The tip of it must have been through. See, it is green." "Wouldn't it be green in the ground?" asked Susie, looking closely at the tiny plant. "Why, no," said Donald. "Things are never green when they're covered up. It's light that makes things green.
We started in the early morning. Of course I was awake before Susie knocked at my door, and only waiting for her to help me lace those high boots of mine. She is the only woman I ever knew who can make knots that will not come undone until you want them to. I suppose that it is an inherited trait from her ancestry of fishermen and sailors.
O the ninth Duke of Dewlap I am, Susie dear! without a hint of a domino title. So likewise the pictorial historian is merry over 'Dewlap alliances' in his description of the society of that period. He has read the ballad, but disregarded the memoirs of the beau. Writers of pretension would seem to have an animus against individuals of the character of Mr. Beamish.
"I never heard of a weather-bird, Aunt Ruth." "Your Uncle Charlie gave him that name, Susie, when we were children. His true name is Warbling Verio; but we used to fancy the little fellow announced what kind of day it would be.
And, you know, Maria and Susie have awful times at home, though they do go to places. Mrs. Fiske is so particular. She always says 'Don't, and they haven't got any yard to their house, or anything. I wouldn't change." "Nor I," said Katy, cheering up at these words of wisdom. "Oh, isn't it lovely to think there won't be any school to-morrow?
"Well," answered Susie, "if it goes down when it is cold I should think it would go up when it is warm." Susie took the little instrument, and, going into the kitchen, held it close to the stove. "Come," she called, "it is going up already. See!" "How fast it moves!" said Donald. "Hold it close to the stove, Susie. Maybe it will go to the very top." "Let us put it in cold water," said Frank.
Susie says she had the most lovely dress, like a cloud of smoke, with diamonds sparkling all over it like stars." "That sounds very pretty and poetical, Jessie," said Ida. What would he care for a dress like a cloud, or the diamonds that shone like stars on it?
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