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It was droll for a tiny boy to wear such heavy clogs upon his feet, but droller still to see him resting his curly head upon the horse's mane. "Ums the Charlie boy," said Katie; "um can't sit up no more." "Ah, my boy, seems to me you take it very easy," said Abner, who was just coming in from the garden, giving some weeds a ride in the "one-wheeled coach," or wheel-barrow.
"I did so hope I should have a good night." The baby went on screaming. "There'll be no peace for me after this," said the dragon. "It's enough to ruin one's nerves. Hush, then did 'ums, then." And he tried to quiet the baby as if it had been a young dragon. But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed more and more and more.
But she is now heaping compote upon a slice of thickly buttered bread for him, glancing meanwhile at our evening newspaper. "Ruggums always has his awful own way, doesn't ums?" she remarks to the nipper. Deeply ignoring this, I resume my elocutionary studies of the Declaration of Independence. For I should say that a signal honour of a municipal character has just been done me.
'And didn't ums know the sea was salt, and did ums think it very nasty, and not half as nice as a brandy-and-soda? Kate watched him for a moment, and then her face clouded, and pouting her pretty lips, she said: 'Of course I don't pretend to be as clever as you, but if you'd never seen the sea until a week ago you might forget.
"Thishere laundryman," said Genesis, resuming "thishere laundryman what own the dog, I reckon he mus' hopped on 'at street-car what went by." "Well, he OUGHT to be arrested!" she said, and, pressing her cheek to Flopit's, she changed her tone. "Izzum's ickle heart a-beatin' so floppity! Um's own mumsy make ums all right, um's p'eshus Flopit!"
Doctor come see you, shake ums head; looks long time; say he put you `all right. Four week since dat. Now, you's hall right?" The last words he uttered with much anxiety depicted on his countenance, for he had been so often deceived of late by Jarwin having occasional lucid intervals in the midst of his delirium, that his faith in him had been shaken.
Since Mars' sold dat cussed Joe, gorry good times 't home. Dam' Abolitioner say we ums all goin' Norf," with a stealthy glance at Dorr. "That's more than your philanthropy bargains for, Charley," laughed Lamar. The men stopped; the negro skulked nearer, his whole senses sharpened into hearing. Dorr's clear face was clouded. "This slave question must be kept out of the war.
The strange vendor of medicine seemed to be deeply interested, although he confined his comments to "ums" and "ahs." "But about that other man," said Roy, returning to the charge when he had finished his narrative, "didn't you see him?"
It was horribly lively, and squirmed about in her arms, and wanted to crawl on the floor. She could only keep it quiet by saying things to it a boy would be ashamed even to think of saying, such as 'Goo goo', and 'Did ums was', and 'Ickle ducksums, then'. When Alice used these expressions the Baby laughed and chuckled and replied 'Daddadda', 'Bababa', or 'Glueglue'.
Bean heard the interesting announcement, and gathered, after a question from his aunt, that his own patrimony had been a part of that all which was lost save honour. He heard his uncle add tearfully that one shot would end it now. He was frightened by this, but his Aunt Clara seemed not to be. He heard her say, "There, there! Did a nassy ol' martet do adainst 'ums!"
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