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"Why, part of the story's been and bust into my stable roof and one chapter smashed a 'ole in Missis Vicar's green 'ouse I beg 'er pardon Conservarratory." Skinner came in. "I'd like thomething a little comforting," he said, "'ot gin and water'th about my figure," and everybody began to tell him things about the pullets. "Grathuth me!" said Skinner.
"Not till I get thome food," answered Tommy with emphasis. "I'm famithhed. I want thomething to eat." "So do I, darlin'," added Crazy Jane. "But I don't see anything hereabout that looks like food. Do you?" Margery sat down helplessly. Harriet was smiling.
Sleary, musing as he looked down into the depths of his brandy and water: 'one, that there ith a love in the world, not all Thelf-interetht after all, but thomething very different; t'other, that it bath a way of ith own of calculating or not calculating, whith thomehow or another ith at leatht ath hard to give a name to, ath the wayth of the dogth ith! Mr.
'There'th dethidedly thomething the matter with you, Thir, said Puddock, anxiously, sotto voce, while he worked his injured arm's a little at the shoulder. 'You may say that, said O'Flaherty, very dismally, and, perhaps, a little bitterly. 'And and and you don't mean to thay why eh? asked Puddock, uneasily.
"But you thee thomething, don't you?" "That is the worst of it. I do not. Look sharp. Can you make out anything that looks like the shore?" "I thee a light! I thee a light!" cried Tommy delightedly. "Yes; I see it now. That must be on the shore. We have been going in the wrong direction. Swim with all your might!"
"I don't know. That is what I am trying to find out." "My grathiouth! Maybe the captain is going to run away with the 'Thilly Thue'." "No. Come to think of it, I believe he must be getting the boat ready for our sail to-morrow." "Not without a light. There ith thomething else going on. Oh, look!" Following a period of silence, blue sparks began sputtering from the masthead of the "Sister Sue."
"You are now three thousand five hundred feet in the air," announced the guide, rather proudly. "Ith that what maketh Buthter tho uppithh thith afternoon?" questioned Tommy. "It may be what makes you so light-headed," retorted Margery. "There! Now, will you be good?" jeered Jane. "Yeth. That wath a good one. Too bad you don't thay thomething bright every day.
Then there were trackth about the place, trackth of heavy bootth, and a mark in the thand where thomething heavy had been put down. It looked like a box. I gueth it wath. The men had taken the box between them and carried it up and down the thhore ath far ath I could thee. You know, the tide wathhed the marks out near down to the thea."
What are you doing here?" questioned Harriet in a whisper. "That ith what I wath going to athk you. What ith it?" "Sh-h-h! You will waken the others." "If you didn't wake them up with that thneeze nothing but a club will wake them." Tommy crept close to her companion. "You thee thomething, don't you?" "Not much. The night is too dark.
Miss Elting, Crazy Jane has beaten us all; you see if she hasn't. Hoo-e-e-e!" "Jane! Oh, Jane! Did you find something?" cried Tommy, in a shrill, high-pitched voice that Margery declared might have been heard a mile away. "What did you find?" "Did I find thomething?" mimicked Jane. "Does Crazy Jane McCarthy ever fail to get what she goes after?
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