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"Ah! so he did, sir; but I wasn't thinking about what he said then. So that's his rattle at the end of his tail, with a sting in it." "Nonsense!" I cried. "Rattlesnakes do not sting." "Hark at him!" cried Pete, addressing nobody. Then to me "Why, you said just now they did." "I meant bite." "But wapses have their stings in their tails." "But rattlesnakes do not," I said. "Look here."
She lacked lightness of touch and originality of fancy, and the results were apt to be what Elsie privately stigmatized as "wapses of red flannel and burlaps without form or comeliness," at which Lionel jeered, while visitors discreetly averted their eyes lest they should be forced to express an opinion concerning them.
"Oo oo ee ee ee EE I putted my finger on a waps, and oo oo the nasty waps oo bited me. An' I don't like wapses a bit, but I likes whay-als oo ee ee." A happy thought struck me. "Why don't you boys make believe that big packing-box in your play-room is a whale?" said I. A compound shriek of delight followed the suggestion, and both boys scrambled upstairs, leaving me a free man again.
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