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Updated: May 27, 2025
There was a powder horn hanging over the dining room mantel, which had been in the battle of Lexington, and Tippy expected Georgina to find the same inspiration in it which she did, because the forefather who carried it was an ancestor of each.
Georgina listened languidly, feeling very comfortable and important with her breakfast brought in to her on a tray. Tippy thought it was too chilly for her in the dining-room where there was no fire. Jeremy had kindled a cheerful blaze on the living-room hearth and his tales of damage done to the shipping and to roofs and chimneys about town, seemed to emphasize her own safety and comfort.
Tippy scolded when she found that her half-pint bottles which she kept especially for cream had been smuggled away in the hold of the brigantine. But without bottles how could one give a realistic touch to the singing of "Yo ho, and the rum below"?
You know he's an editor, down in Kentucky. I'd like to be the editor of a magazine that children would adore the way I do the St. Nicholas." Tippy would have said that Georgina was "run-ning on." But Mr. Locke did not think so. Children always opened their hearts to him. He held the magic key. Georgina found it easier to tell him her inmost feelings than anybody else in the world but Barby.
So Mother Cotton-Tail put on her best sunbonnet and took her purse and shopping basket with her, and went off with Papa Cotton-Tail calling, "Good-bye, I will be home to supper at five o'clock sharp." Then Tippy Toes danced a little fairylike dance before the mirror and sang, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose."
So the Seventeen Little Bears got up and put on their little red wrappers and crept downstairs. They crept down so softly that Grandpa Grumbles never heard a sound. By and by when Grandpa Grumbles went back into the sitting-room there sat the Seventeen Little Bears on their seventeen little stools by the fire. Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes sat on the arm of Grandpa Grumbles' chair.
Soon Grandpa Grumbles and Tippy Toes had everything out of the room. It did not take long to make it as clean as a pin. Grandpa Grumbles looked hard at Tippy Toes. "How does your nose feel?" he asked. "Come, sir, why don't you cry any more?" Tippy Toes danced this way, and danced that way, and sang to the big mirror that hung on the wall, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows."
Madge recoiled with a pretty shriek. "Oh, horrors! Trust myself in a horrid tippy canoe, with a girl? Never, my dear! I value my life too highly, I assure you. But there is a sailboat! I dote on sailing, and I am sure Professor Merryweather is a superb sailor." Professor Merryweather rose with a smile, and would be charmed to take the young ladies out in the Keewaydin.
She would go with him and do the asking, she added, but Belle had promised to take her with her the next time she went to see the net-mender, and the next time would be the following afternoon, if Tippy was well enough to be up and around. Georgina couldn't miss the chance to see inside the cottage that had been the home of a hero and Belle's drowned lover.
At last he said to Bunny and Susan, "One day I heard Snubby Nose talking as he stood before a mirror, and he said," "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answered, "Tippy Toes." Now this Little Cotton-Tail dances before the mirror, and he says, "Who is so ugly? Nobody knows." The mirror answers, "Snubby Nose."
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