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It smote heaviest the little ones just toddling about, and who had not enough of strength and endurance in their little bodies to resist the slowly-destroying fever. So Dirk's treasure did not sleep alone in the sand, for many another father's was there to keep it company. Oh! the weariness of the days, the slow dragging of the weeks!
Who teaches you all you know of right and wrong? Is it your mother? Suppose she had died, as did Jennie's mamma, when you were a toddling baby? There, that's all; you do not hear a word I say; and if you did, you would not heed, O, self-righteous Dotty Dimple! Dotty ran up stairs to find her grandmother.
Thus equipped, she crept out by the back door, and having got thus free, she hurried along, never looking behind her till she came to the main road to Edinburgh, when she mounted the umbrella one used by her father, and so large that it was more like a main-sheet than a covering suitable to so small a personage; so it behoved, that if she met any other "travellers on purpose bent," the moving body must have appeared to be some small tent on its way to a fair, carried by the proprietor thereof, of whom no more could be seen but the two short toddling legs, and the hem of the black riding-hood.
It is five years now since Harold and Jerrie came home, and toddling about the house is a little girl two years old, whom they call Gretchen, and who has all the soft beauty of the Gretchen in the picture, together with Jerrie's stronger and more marked features.
"Mamma," said a little girl, running up, followed by a nursery-maid, "the ball's in the water!" The child was a beautiful fair-haired little darling about four-and-a-half years old, and a boy, a year younger, and a little shorter, and a little stouter, was toddling after her. "The ball in the water, Flo! Can't Jim get it out?" "Jim's gone, mamma."
Why, look what a stupid old fogy I was then, toddling about the place with too much time on my hands, reading a lot and forgetting everything; and here you came in, gave me something to do, made the little I know of any use, and ran a pretty gold wire down the rusty fiddle of life. If there are any speeches of gratitude to be made, they are mine, they are mine."
And when, toddling along, we reached the edge of the lake and she finally spoke, conceive my chagrin when I discovered that what she was talking about was stars. Not a bit of good to me. "Oh, look," she said. She was a confirmed Oh-looker.
After tea she strolled out into Kensington Gardens, and sat under the shade of trees already autumnal, watching the multitude of children children of the people enjoying the nation's park all to themselves, in the complete absence of their social betters. What ducks they were, some of them the little, grimy, round-faced things rolling on the grass, or toddling after their sisters and brothers.
After these the men came hotly, without decent order, trying to spy the girls in front, and make good jokes about them, at which their wives laughed heartily, being jealous when alone perhaps. And after these men and their wives came all the children toddling, picking flowers by the way, and chattering and asking questions, as the children will.
"Come, George," says Eliza, "you've been gone all day. Do put down that book, and let's talk, while I'm getting tea, do." And little Eliza seconds the effort, by toddling up to her father, and trying to pull the book out of his hand, and install herself on his knee as a substitute. "O, you little witch!" says George, yielding, as, in such circumstances, man always must.
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