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"Mith Rothe, when thith canoe geth too old for you, you'll give it to me, won't you?" said Mabel, putting her hands lovingly up towards the fanciful basket. "Mabel," Johnny said in a tone of reproof, "how often has mamma told you never to ask for things in that way?"
She thayth you were left when a child lying round, jutht ath promithcuouthly ath she wath; and if I can do anything towardth putting you on the trail of your people, I'll do it. I know thome of the voyageurth who traded with the Cherokeeth, and your father wath one wasn't he?" He glanced at Low's utterly abstracted and immobile face. "I thay, you don't theem to take a hand in thith game, pardner.
"Toby, jutht hold your horthes!" exclaimed the one who lisped so dreadfully, and whose name was Theodore Burgoyne, though seldom called anything but Ted; "you let Elmer decide for the crowd. I'm dead certain he'll lay out a joyouth plan at the meeting tonight that'll call for the unanimous approval of every member of the troop to be found in thith sleepy town these dog days." "Hear! hear!
Why didn't you say 'bawled out by Johnny? That'th what any of the retht of us would have said." "Well, I've lived most of my life in England. You can't expect me to talk the language yet." "I thought you were English. You've got an acthent like the fellow who plays the dude in thith show. Thay, why did you ever get into the show business?" "Well . . . well, why did you? Why does anybody?"
"No doubt," said the Deacon gravely "no doubt. But it wath scarcely that I wath thinking of. Yah!" he grinned, "thith would have been a thlap in the face till him!" Wylie looked at him for a while with a white scunner in his face. He wore the musing and disgusted look of a man whose wounded mind retires within itself to brood over a sight of unnatural cruelty.
The dining-room was crowded; and as soon as dinner was over we went outside and sat down together where we could visit our fill unmolested. They wanted to know about my doings, but I was too eager to hear all the home news to talk of myself. "Everybody all right when I left," Bud asserted. "I got off a few dayth before thith mitherable thon of Erin.
"If we had a fire engine we could make thith fire look thick." Harriet was in the carry-all passing out bundles and packs. She dropped a sack of cooking utensils to the floor of the bridge with a great clatter. "Carry them to land," she directed Tommy and Hazel. "There goes the other horse," cried Miss Elting, as a crash and a great splash for the moment cut short their conversation.
"But why do you call thith plathe Camp Wau-Wau?" demanded Grace. "Camp Wau-Wau ith in the Pocono Woodth, Mrs. Livingthton." "Yes, my dear; but a camp may move, may it not? This is the same old Camp Wau-Wau, but in a different location. This year we concluded to make our camp by the sea shore, and chose Lonesome Bar for our camping place." "Lonesome Bar!" exclaimed Miss Elting. "That explains it.
"You've had a narrow escape," insisted Ethel, and then to divert their minds from what had happened she made them stretch themselves in a line and hunt for arrow heads all the way back to their mothers. "Thith ith a funny thtone," exclaimed Dicky, picking up a rather large oblong stone that had a groove all around its middle. "It looks like Lake Chautauqua. doesn't it?
"Not on thith houtheboat," complained Tommy. "It keepeth me tired out all the time watching other folkth work. My boneth ache all night long, I am tho tired. When I get home I'll thleep for a month to make up for lotht time." "Had we better start now, Harriet?" asked the guardian. "Oh, mercy, no; The boys are up yet and perhaps out on the lake.
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