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Updated: May 29, 2025
When Webby told about it next day, he said, "I felt like I was a chicken just hatched fum out an aig," but Webby said that because words were hard things and difficult to handle. He really thought of angels and made up his mind then and there to be a great man.
"Sooner!" said his wife scornfully. "You are the forgittinest feller, and Webby don't never forget. If you want he should go an errant, mister, he'll be back soon." "Not exactly an errand," said Ernest, and no more would he say until he saw the boy come galloping back to the field. He dismounted a long way off, and came running.
But the day following, weak and too soft for the lift, straining to remove the great dish-pan high with crockery from sink to table, she let slip, grasping for a new hold. There was a crash and a splintered debris plates that rolled like hoops to the four corners of the room, shivering as they landed; a great ringing explosion of heavy stoneware, and herself drenched with the webby water.
"'Wait here, under the Arch, said Taku-Wakin, 'till I see if the arrow of my thought finds a cleft to stick into. "So we waited, watching the white, webby moons of the spiders, wet in the grass, and the man huts sleeping on the hill, and felt the Dawn's breath pricking the skin of our shoulders. The huts were mere heaps of brush like rats' nests.
"What shouldn't you like, Wynnie?" asked her mother. "To be in the water and not feel it wet. Those feathers!" "They feel it with their legs and their webby toes," said Connie. "Yes, that is some consolation," answered Wynnie. "And if you were a duck, you would feel the good of your feathers in winter, when you got into your cold bath of a morning."
But we are in a great hurry, and all we can do for you to-night is to give you a short spin." When Bill came down, his eyes heavy with sleep, he found Webby restlessly pacing up and down before the car, and a silent, attentive crowd of natives waiting to see what was going to happen.
"All lace and webby pink silk and ribbands underneath," she reminded him; "but only for you, and satin trains and diamonds for the others." Her words winged like little flames into his imagination. He whispered in her ear, "Richmond." She stiffened in his arms as if that single word had the power to freeze her. "We'll see, we'll see," he added hastily, fearing to dispel her complacency.
But Webby was adamant, although he was obliged to make dates for the following day with three boys who insisted on fighting him out of revenge. One glance at the plane assured Ernest that everything was exactly as he had left it. He thanked Webby and asked him what he would like best a payment of money or a flight.
"What you want is a magazine," said Ernest, "and I will send you mine as soon as I have read it." "Every time it comes?" asked Webby. "Say, you are good!" "That's all right," said Ernest, "only take one piece of advice. The flying will keep. Just you keep on going to school. You will need all sorts of learning, especially mathematics." "Ho; I kin eat figgers!" boasted the boy.
Shongut flung open the screen door and swept a pile of webby dust to the porch and then off on the patch of grass. Thin spring sunshine lay warm along the neat terraces of Wasserman Avenue. Windows were flung wide to the fresh kiss of spring; pillows, comforters, and rugs draped across their sills.
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