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Updated: May 19, 2025
Dry and very hot they were and little man babbling his nonsense about little boys, and his 'Wapsie, and toys, and birds, and the mill-stream, and the church-yard of which, with so strange a fatality, children, not in romance only, but reality, so often prattle in their feverish wanderings. He felt his pulse.
And when 'Wapsie' was mentioned, sometimes the vicar's eyes filled, but he smiled through this with a kind of gladness at the child's affection. 'It will soon be over, my darling! You will be walking with Wapsie in a week again. The sun could as soon cease from shining as little Fairy from living. The thought he would not allow near him.
Little man looked wonderingly from his tired eyes on Wapsie, and his thin fingers crept on his hand, and Wapsie turned about, drying his eyes, and said 'Little man! my darling! 'He's like himself, Sir, while he's sitting up his little head quite right again. 'My head's quite right, Wapsie, the little man whispered, sadly. 'Thank God, my darling! said the vicar.
'They say that little mannikin won't get well. 'And am I always to be sick, here in my little bed, Wapsie? whispered little Fairy, in his dreamy, earnest way, that was new to him.
Oh! I see. That is right. The maid ducked a short courtesy. 'Oh! my little man, you must not do that. Ask nicely, you know; always quietly, like a little gentleman. 'But, oh! Wapsie, your hands would be cold; and he held the gloves to him against the glass.
He won't eat, and looks pale, but he slept very well, my darling man; and Doctor Buddle I met him this morning so kindly took him into his room, and examined him, and says it may be nothing at all, please Heaven, and she sighed, smiling still. 'Dear little Fairy where is he? asked Rachel, her sad eyes looking toward the door. 'In the study with his Wapsie. Mrs.
'No, darling; not always sick: you'll be happier than ever but not here; little man will be taken by his Saviour, that loves him best of all and he'll be in heaven and only have a short time to wait, and maybe his poor Wapsie will come to him, please God, and his darling mamma and we'll all be happy together, for ever, and never be sick or sorry any more, my treasure my little Fairy my darling.
Little 'Fairy' used to walk, when parochial visits were not very distant, with his 'Wapsie; how that name came about no one remembered, but the vicar answered to it more cheerily than to any other. The little man was solitary, and these rambles were a delight.
And little man looked on him with his tired eyes, not quite understanding what it meant, nor why Wapsie was crying; and the nurse said 'He'd like to be dozin', Sir, he's so tired, please. So down the poor little fellow lay, his 'Wapsie' praying by his bedside.
'If little man would like to come with his Wapsie, we'll take such a nice little walk together, and we'll go and see poor Widow Maddock; and we'll buy three muffins on our way home, for a feast this evening; and we'll look at the pictures in the old French "Josephus;" and Mamma and I will tell stories; and I have a halfpenny to buy apples for little Fairy.
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