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'I haven't done nothing to you, Sir, said Biler, otherwise Rob, otherwise Grinder, and always Toodle. 'You young scoundrel! replied Mr Carker, slowly releasing him, and moving back a step into his favourite position. 'What do you mean by daring to come here? 'I didn't mean no harm, Sir, whimpered Rob, putting one hand to his throat, and the knuckles of the other to his eyes.
In the dusk of the evening Mr Toodle, being off duty, arrives with Polly and a box, and leaves them, with a sounding kiss, in the hall of the empty house, the retired character of which affects Mr Toodle's spirits strongly.
'Then, not being a stranger, I shall be in nobody's way, said Miss Tox, 'and everything will go on just as if I were not here. Mrs Richards will do her mending, or her ironing, or her nursing, whatever it is, without minding me: and you'll smoke your pipe, too, if you're so disposed, Sir, won't you? 'Thank'ee, Mum, said Mr Toodle. 'Yes; I'll take my bit of backer.
Oh, I say, Uncle Wiggily! Can't you stop for a moment and say how-d'-do?" "Why, of course, I can," answered the bunny, and, looking around the corner of an old log, he saw Grandpa Whackum, the old beaver gentleman, who lived with Toodle and Noodle Flat-tail, the beaver boys. "Come in and sit down for a minute and rest yourself," invited Grandpa Whackum. "I will," said Uncle Wiggily.
'I heerd it, said Toodle, 'but I don't know as I understood it rightly Sir, 'account of being no scholar, and the words being ask your pardon rayther high. But Polly heerd it. It's all right.
He was always in a whirlwind or a calm, and a peaceable, contented, easy-going man Mr Toodle was in either state, who seemed to have made over all his own inheritance of fuming and fretting to the engines with which he was connected, which panted, and gasped, and chafed, and wore themselves out, in a most unsparing manner, while Mr Toodle led a mild and equable life.
Where did he live now? hastily inquired Walter. He lived in the Company's own Buildings, second turning to the right, down the yard, cross over, and take the second on the right again. It was number eleven; they couldn't mistake it; but if they did, they had only to ask for Toodle, Engine Fireman, and any one would show them which was his house.
Glasses of wine were then produced, to sustain the drooping spirits of the family; and Miss Tox, busying herself in dispensing 'tastes' to the younger branches, bred them up to their father's business with such surprising expedition, that she made chokers of four of them in a quarter of a minute. 'You'll take a glass yourself, Sir, won't you? said Miss Tox, as Toodle appeared.
'I'm glad he ain't got to be at all secret-like, Polly, observed Mr Toodle in his slow and measured way, and shovelling in his bread and butter with a clasp knife, as if he were stoking himself, 'because that don't look well; do it, Polly? 'Why, of course it don't, father. How can you ask!
I starts light with Rob only; I comes to a branch; I takes on what I finds there; and a whole train of ideas gets coupled on to him, afore I knows where I am, or where they comes from. What a Junction a man's thoughts is, said Mr Toodle, 'to-be-sure!
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