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You describe a circle all around me, and then we'll look at every weeny bit of it and we'll be sure to find Vi " She reached out her hand to the other magnitude who clasped it with an assumed intensity sufficient to retain it. At this moment a third magnitude broke on the scene: a huge oblong, angular figure, very difficult to describe, came revolving towards them.
"I was at first just a weeny bit; but you see Uncle Dick has a wonderful house with swords an' armour, but empty, an' he wanted to keep somebody in it to see that everything was nice, I s'pose, an' sing, you know, an' take care of his life. Auntie Lisbeth can sing, an' she wanted to go, so I forgave them."
Who travels every day with the same men in the train, and hears everything, every single tiny weeny snap of news that has happened within ten miles around?" "Don't know, I'm sure. I don't!" "Oh, oh! Who told us about Evan Bruce, and about Mabel's engagement, and the robbery at the Priory, and and " "For pity's sake, stop talking all at once! Take it in turns.
Good gracious, sir, how scared I was! I slipped off the silk handkercher, and, 'feared as I was, I didn't forget to put it in my bosom. "Then I looked about me. Right afore me on the hearth was a little weeny taper burning, that showed I was in a great big garret with sloping walls. At one end two deep dormer windows and a black walnut bureau standing between them.
The tired mother with the "weeny baby" on her arm lay on a long carpenter's bench, her earthly journey over, and when Rebecca stole in and placed the flowery garland all along the edge of the rude bier, death suddenly took on a more gracious and benign aspect.
But, sure, it's the fancy she has, and morebetoken, I think bad of me lettin' the little goat swally the weeny bit she had on her. Ay bedad, I'd a right to be bringin' it to her; and, at all evints, I'd be doin' a foolish thing to come home widout it, and me not gettin' the bit of fat bacon these six weeks next Saturday to make up the price.
Moreover, he is smaller than Miner, and his tunnels are seldom in the earth but just under the leaves and grass. "His food is much the same as that of Teeny Weeny worms, insects, flesh when he can get it, and seeds. He is fond of beechnuts. He is quite equal to killing a Mouse of his own size or bigger and does not hesitate to do so when he gets the chance.
He has a very wonderful little nose, flexible and very sensitive. Of course, with such poor eyes he prefers the dark when there are fewer enemies abroad." All this time Teeny Weeny had been growing more and more uneasy. Old Mother Nature saw and understood. Now she told him that he might go. Hardly were the words out of her mouth when he vanished, darting under some dead leaves.
But Keith turned his face even more determinedly to the wall, and moved his limbs under the bed clothes in a motion very much like a kick. He would have nothing whatever to do with the "weeny, teeny mouthfuls," not even to please auntie. And after a vain attempt to remove his tortured head, entirely away from those gently stroking ringers, he said he guessed he would get up and be dressed.
And after his experience of the last hour and a half, he did not at all relish his renewed solitude in that room. "A drap of puir thin liquor, poored out, too, in a weeny glass nae deeper than an egg-shell, and twa cookies; that's what she ca'ed rafrashment!"
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