Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
As "Dolly" Spanker, my husband, he was inimitable, and brought down the house two or three times during the evening. He was also very great as "Little Toddlekins," a part that might have been specially written for him. The character is that of a stout, somewhat bulky and unwieldy young person who possesses an inordinate appreciation of her own imaginary charms.
"Toddlekins will be rather savage not to be met," she commented. "Yes; she's so keen on the trap, and the amount it saves in taxis and carriers." "It does seem rough on her, especially when she's sent a telegram. Look here, old thing, let's take it to meet her ourselves!" "What? You and me?" "Why not? I can drive, and I know how to harness Baron.
"Then we're left for evermore to the tender mercies of Toddlekins?" "That's just about the size of it. Toddlekins has taken the whole thing over." "She's been longing and yearning to seize the reins and drive the coach ever since she came," commented Tattie. "Well, she's got her chance now." "And she'll use it, too! You bet there'll be changes!" "Changes! There are changes already, although Mrs.
She calls it necessary firmness in a mistress, and we call it a strain of obstinacy in her disposition. In the old days we could get round Mrs. Gifford, but now Toddlekins rules the show, you may as well make up your mind to things and have done with it. What she says is kismet." "Why do you want to go to Glenbury?" asked Jess. "Oh! just a reason of my own," evaded Diana.
Wendy, much thrilled, and fired with the excellence of Diana's notion, went indoors, and, taking elaborate precautions not to meet anybody, secured outdoor garments worthy of the occasion. She rolled them in a Union Jack for camouflage, and bore them off to the stable. "I've brought 'bests'," she said. "Toddlekins wouldn't thank to be met by two Cinderellas!"
That, of course, is the ASKING price. Ten would do a whole lot of good." "I cannot say positively, but I will try." "All right. And now where's that darling child?" A laugh rang out from the top of the stairs, the laugh of a child overjoyed at meeting some one she loves, followed by "do you mean me?" "Of course, I mean you, Toddlekins. Come down here and let me give you a big hug.
"Helped to blow up their tyres, which we thought was really saintly, when we weren't asked to go with them," said the still injured Wendy. "Well, it's a pretty go they're all off! Bunty's just had a telegram from Toddlekins. She's coming back this afternoon, and wants the trap to meet the four-thirty train." "She should! She's in a precious hurry to leave her beloved London. Whence this thusness?"
We need variety, but everything must be good of its kind, and verses about children are seldom for children. Because children love babies, they love "Where did you come from, baby dear?" but nothing like Tennyson's "Baby, wait a little longer," and especially nothing of the "Toddlekins" type has any place in the collection of a self-respecting child.
"I shan't tell you!" "Magsie would never dare to bolt into a tobacconist's and buy cigarettes." "I was afraid she wouldn't," said Diana sadly. "And you'd better be careful yourself if you go to Glenbury next exeat day. Toddlekins would draw the line at cigarettes. You wouldn't like to get expelled?" "I don't know that I'd very much care," sighed Diana.
At last the connoisseurs declared they were brown enough, and they were carefully and mathematically halved and served on biscuits. "Delicious!" decreed Tattie, critically. "Couldn't have been better if Toddlekins had reared the piglets on our own farm," chimed in Peggy. "Diana, you haven't taken a bite yet," commented Wendy. "I'm not sure that I want any.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking