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"Toddles," he said. Regan sat down heavily in his chair. "What?" demanded the super. "Toddles," said Donkin. "I've been trying to drum a little railroading into him on the key." Regan wiped his face. He looked helplessly from Donkin to the super, and then back again at Donkin. "But but what's he doing at Cassil's Siding? How'd he get there h'm? H'm? How'd he get there?"
True, they got it out with the help of the hand extinguishers before it did any serious damage, for Nulty had gone at it on the jump; but while it lasted the burning oil on the car floor looked dangerous. Anyway, it was bad enough so that they couldn't hide it when they got into Big Cloud and Hawkeye and Toddles went on the carpet for it the next morning in the super's office.
"Well," answered Toddles, "it did stick a bit, but I just yanked it over and it worked." "Splendid!" said Grigson brightly. "A nice bit of work, and very thoughtful of you to bring home such jolly souvenirs." "Look here," replied Toddles with warmth, "who the devil are you getting at?" "Nothing; oh, nothing at all." Grigson moved away towards the Mess.
As Will passed along the road he saw Toddles playing in the field where Baizley was digging. Presently he was tickled to observe that the child had discovered Baizley's tin dinner pail, hidden in a clump of raspberry bushes.
Grigson meanwhile had been examining the under carriage with scientific care, and turned to ask him how he had got on. "Bong," said Toddles, beaming; "absolutely bong. They spotted us, but Archie was off colour." "Did you see your pills burst?" Toddles beamed more emphatically than ever.
He couldn't walk, the pain was more than he could bear his right ankle, his left shoulder, and his back hopping only made it worse it was easier to crawl. And so Toddles crawled. It took him a long time even to pass the switch light. The pain made him weak, his senses seemed to trail off giddily every now and then, and he'd find himself lying flat and still beside the track.
The usual signals were exchanged, and Toddles finished up a graceful descent by making violent contact with the ground, bouncing seven times and knocking over two flares before finally coming to rest. His machine appeared to be leaning on its left elbow in a slightly intoxicated condition. "Bust the V strut," said Toddles cheerfully. We assured him that one would hardly notice it.
"That's all right for you!" he spluttered out hotly. "You don't look too small for the train crews or the roundhouse, and they don't call you Toddles so's nobody'll forget it. What'd you do?" "I'll tell you what I'd do," said Donkin quietly. "I'd make everybody on the division wish their own name was Toddles before I was through with them, and I'd make a job for myself."
He kisses the toy with a look of ecstatic bliss, and toddles away. At the far end of the hall a game of blindman's-buff is starting up. The aged grandmother, who has watched it with growing excitement, bids one of the settlement workers hold her grandchild, that she may join in; and she does join in, with all the pent-up hunger of fifty joyless years.
It's her birthday to-day, but she toddles as badly as she did yesterday, though she's a year older." "She will have learned to run by the time that you are a man," said the Dog. "So nice a little lady can give you no other cause of annoyance, I am sure?" The boy frowned. "She is always wanting something. She wants something now, I see. What do you want, Aldegunda?"
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