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He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came. So did the plump sister when she came. So did every one when they came. Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! But he was early at the office next morning. O, he was early there!
"Was that old Uncle Jolyon? Mother always says he was a topper." "He was," said Holly simply, and opened the stable door. In a loose-box stood a silver roan of about fifteen hands, with a long black tail and mane. "This is mine Fairy." "Ah!" said Val, "she's a jolly palfrey. But you ought to bang her tail. She'd look much smarter."
"Do you know her?" said Brett. "I know her by sight. Seen her in the York now an' then." "She can evidently take care of herself." "Ra ther. Don't you so much as look at her, mister, or off goes your topper into the river. She's in a bad temper to-night." Brett laughed and walked ahead. On reaching the Surrey side the girl made for the Waterloo Road. There she mounted on top of a 'bus.
After leaving the Museum, I went to see Bennoch, and arrange with him our expedition of to-day; and he read me a letter from Topper, very earnestly inviting me to come and spend a night or two with him.
'Why, bless my soul! cried Fred, 'who's that? I have come to dinner. 'It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred? Let him in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came. So did the plump sister when she came. So did every one when they came.
"Near thing, that," observed the mate, calmly. Cap'n Pigg went a shade paler beneath the tan on his weather-beaten face. "Cuss 'im! careless 'ound!" he muttered. "Might a' sunk us." "'Ad no proper lookout, I expect," returned Mr. Topper, "even if 'e 'ad, 'e couldn't see anything, and we got no fog-'orn to show 'em where we was, yer see." "No.
His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came. So did the plump sister when she came. So did every one when they came. Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! But he was early at the office next morning. Oh, he was early there! If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late! That was the thing he had set his heart upon.
No, Red, for the time being I guess I'm satisfied. Besides, they might chuck me in the infantry, and I have a horror of having things drop on me from overhead. Let's to bed, old topper, so we can hop off early in the morning. The sooner we start the sooner we get to 'Gay Paree'. Besides, early to bed and early to rise makes a man ready to challenge the skies. How's that for impromptu poetry?"
One hot summer afternoon, when the Saucy Sally was taking in cargo and the Skipper was ashore, Mr. Topper, seated on the coamings of the hatchway, abandoned himself to the melancholy pleasures of Haydn's "Surprise," the tune being wrung out of a tarnished German-silver flute.
Managed a district for the Fowl Fund. And a topper to ride always at the top of the hunt! "Trust a priest to have a good horse!" is the rejoinder prescribed in such cases, and Major Dick's fellows seldom failed to comply with the ritual. The advantage of being the youngest member of a large family is one that takes a considerable time to mature.
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