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"Do you like little boys?" "Yes, when they don't cry," said the Counterpane Fairy, staring at him very hard. "Well, I was lonely," said Teddy. "I wanted my mamma." "Yes, I know, but you oughtn't to have cried. I came to you, though, because you were lonely and sick, and I thought maybe you would like me to show you a story." "Do you mean tell me a story?" asked Teddy.
Teddy danced and chattered beside her, neighbours stopped to smile at the baby. At the fruit carts, the meat market, the grocery, Martie pondered and planned. Oranges had gone up, lamb had gone up dear, dear, dear! Sitting at the grocery counter, she would rearrange her menus. "Butter fifty my, that is high! Hasn't the new butter come in? I had better have half a pound, I think.
She wore now, most of the time, her nun's frock of gray, which had seemed to foreshadow something of her future on that glorified day when Derry had first come to her. She had laid away many of her lovely things, and one morning Teddy remarked on the change. "You don't dwess up any more." Nurse stood back of his chair. "Dress " "Dur-wess." "Don't you like this dress, Teddy?"
Wot d'ye mean, mad?" Mr. Nugent looked round in perplexity. "Do you mean to tell me that Teddy and Amelia are married?" he said, in a voice trembling with eagerness. "I do," said Mr. Kybird. "It seems they've been fond of one another all along, and they went up all unbeknown last Friday and got a license and got married." "And if I see you putting your 'and on 'er shoulder ag'in" said Mr.
"But there can't be any cellars in these woods," thought the little girl. "Where are you, Teddy?" she called after a bit. "I can't see you!" "Here I am, right behind you!" was the answer, and Jan, turning quickly, saw the head of her brother sticking up out of a hole in the ground. "Oh! Oh!" exclaimed Ted's sister. "Where's the rest of you? Where's your legs and your feet?"
And he went away upstairs, only to return in a few minutes, laughing under his breath: "I say, Phil, don't you want to see the kids asleep? Billy's flat on his back with a white 'Teddy bear' in either arm; and Drina and Josephine are rolled up like two kittens in pajamas; and you should see Winthrop's legs " "Certainly," said Selwyn gravely, "I'll be with you in a second."
"Teddy," said he, "now that the coast's clear, let us lose no time in coming to the point. You are aware that Bryan M'Mahon has come into the mountain farm of Ahadarra by the death of his uncle." "Shiss; dese three years." "You will stick to your cursed brogue," said the other; "however, that's your own affair. You are aware of this?" "I am."
"That's good work for a fool," gloated Teddy. "It takes a wise man to be a fool, young man," was the clown's retort. "Perhaps you don't know that the river has overflowed a few miles above here, and that this place is full of fish?" "No; I don't know anything of the sort. The only water I see coming is from right overhead. Maybe there's fish swimming around up there; I don't know.
The captain said this pleasantly, but there was a stern look combined in the twinkle of his hazel eyes beneath their thick brown eyebrows, like penthouses overshadowing them; and Teddy felt that, with all his gentleness and joking way, he was a man who intended to command and likewise to be obeyed.
"You make it out of flat boards and you have to push it along with a pole. We can make a raft out of all the boards and pieces of wood grandpa took the things out of. It'll be a lot of fun!" "Will mother let us?" asked Jan. "Oh, I guess so," answered Teddy. But he did not go to ask to find out.
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