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Updated: May 6, 2025
'Ah, yes; I shall come with much gladness, and play as never in my life before, cried Tommo, with a flourish of the old cap that made the children laugh. 'Give these to your brothers, said the fairy prince, stuffing nuts and oranges into Tessa's hands. 'And these to the little girl, added one of the young princesses, flying out of the dining-room with cakes and rosy apples for Ranza.
This gave her courage to try another, and she sung better and better each time; for Tommo played his best, and kept whispering to her, 'Yes; we go well; this is fine. They will give the money and the blessed coffee.
Nono and Giuseppe, or Sep, as they called him, wondered what she was going away for, and little Ranza cried at being left; but Tessa told them they would know all about it in a week, and have a fine time if they were good; so they kissed her all round and let her go. Poor Tessa's heart beat fast as she trudged away with Tommo, who slung his harp over his shoulder, and gave her his hand.
But, I say, Tommo, you are not going to eat any of that mess there, in the dark, are you? Why, how can you tell what it is?” “By tasting it, to be sure,” said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth; “and excellently good it is, too, very much like veal.”
All the afternoon the two friends wandered about, singing and playing, and gathering up their small harvest. At dusk they went home, Tessa so hoarse she could hardly speak, and so tired she fell asleep over her supper. But she had made half a dollar, for Tommo divided the money fairly, and she felt rich with her share.
When I observed the striking devotion of the natives to him, and their temporary withdrawal of all attention from myself, I felt not a little piqued. The glory of Tommo is departed, thought I, and the sooner he removes from the valley the better.
Tonight, then, I will see him, thought Toby; but many a long day passed before he ever saw Tommo again. Hardly was the boat out of sight, when the captain came forward and ordered the anchor weighed; he was going to sea. Vain were all Toby's ravings they were disregarded; and when he came to himself, the sails were set, and the ship fast leaving the land.
The day is very long, people are cross, and at night one is ready to die with weariness. Thou art so small, Tessa, I am afraid it will go badly with thee, said Tommo, who was a merry, black-eyed boy of fourteen, with the kindest heart in the world under his old jacket.
But I can't; so I'll fill the socks all full, and be happy, said Tessa, as she looked wistfully into the gay stores, and saw the heavy baskets go by. 'Who knows what may happen if we do well? returned Tommo, nodding wisely, for he had a plan as well as Tessa, and kept chuckling over it as he trudged through the mud.
In her long stocking she found all sorts of treasures; for Tommo had stuffed it full of queer things, and his mother had made gingerbread into every imaginable shape, from fat pigs to full omnibuses. Dear me! What happy little souls they were that morning; and when they were quiet again, how like a fairy tale did Tessa's story sound to them.
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