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Sleary, putting his head in at the door again to say it, 'that I wath tho muth of a Cackler! IT is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself. Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs.
"Bleth't if I didn't think from the weight of your hand it wath my old friend, Thacramento Bill," said Curson apologetically, with a wink at the bystanders. "That'th the way Bill alwayth uthed to tackle hith friendth, till he wath one day bounthed by a prithe-fighter in Frithco, whom he had mithtaken for a mithionary." As Mr.
"I think a fairy must have touched the world with her wand and changed it into something else during the night," replied Harriet. "But don't you know where you are, Miss Elting?" "I do not. Do you?" "I think I do." "I know," piped Tommy. "We are on the water. I wath in it earlier thith morning." No one gave any heed to Tommy's pleasantry.
"Girls, we have had a very narrow escape. I dread to think what would have happened had that automobile top been up. We should give thanks for our deliverance. But I don't understand how we came to get in there, or what it is that we did get into," said the guardian. "I know. It wath water," Tommy informed her. "It wath wet water, too, and cold water, and "
"Maybe if we wait we will fall into thome more pondth," suggested Grace. "Ith your thurprithe ath wet at thith one wath?" "I admit your right to tease me, Tommy," laughed the guardian. "Come on, everybody!" urged Harriet. "We must walk briskly and keep it up. That will be the only way to keep us from catching cold as a result of our wetting."
Controlling herself somewhat, Tommy glanced triumphantly at the expectant faces about her. "There wath a man at thith camp latht night." "What?" The girls asked the question at the top of their voices. "There were two men here latht night," persisted Grace. "Please explain what you mean, Grace," commanded the Chief Guardian. "You say there were two men here last night. How do you know?"
"Tommy, did you ever have any one fall at your feet!" "Yeth. You know Jake Thpooner? Well, he had a conniption fit, one day, in the thtreet, and fell down right at my feet." "You mean an epileptic fit. But you shouldn't joke about a serious matter like that," rebuked Miss Elting. "I wathn't joking. He did. It wath Buthter who laughed. I didn't. But Buthter ith fat, you know.
"Does you?" said Katie, kindly, "then I'll frow you one;" and she did it from the tips of her clean fingers. "But piggy's velly dirty," said she, wiping her lips on her apron. "Don't they wath him?" said Charlie; "they wath theep." "Um isn't a sheep," returned Katie; "um's a pig." "But your gwampa could wath him." "No, gampa couldn't; gampa's deaf.
"He wath standin' on hith head, auntie," explained the judge, with great politeness, as the tumbler appeared too much confused by all the circumstances to make any answer. "Wath he, indeed?" laughed Thomas's mama. "Mashing his little head all to jelly; poor Tommy!" "No," said Tom, whose remarks were more noticeable for brevity than anything else. "No shelly."
"And we are anchored just the same as we were last night," remarked Jane. "It's spirits, girls. No mistake about that." "Now, Jane," laughed Harriet. "You know very well that the mere fact that our anchor was pulled up before we left the other side of the lake, then let down on this side, makes your spirit theory impossible." "It wath thpookth," declared Tommy.
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