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"What shall I tell you? Aladdin? Puss in Boots? Cin " "Soogar Wiver" interrupted Tot, promptly. "Soogar Wiver? Why, what a little pitcher for ears! What do you know about Soogar Wiver?" "Oo said," said Tot, with decision, "that oo went fisin' in Soogar Wiver." "Why, so I did," said the boy, reflectively. "Is it vewy sweet?" asked Tot.
"I sood 'ike to see Soogar Wiver," said Tot. "Wouldn't you!" And Will, fairly launched, tossed all conscientious scruples overboard, and steered boldly out into the deep waters of wildest imagination. "You just would! Why, as I said, the river bed is solid sugar. Think how nice to be able to turn over and take a gnaw at your bed-post when you feel hungry!
My knock attracted a little chap of two-and-a-half or three years; his stout hands shoved the screen back, and I found myself ushered into his company. There evidently was no one else about, so I visited, and we talked on those things which are of importance in the world of three-year-olds. "Muvver's don to the wiver," he confided. "She tum back pwetty soon." "And Father?" I asked. "Where is he?"
Dere's a big wiver comin' now Crumpy smelt a big wiver." Buddy's mother stared across the arid plain parched into greater barrenness by the heat that had been unremitting for the past week. Buddy's faith in the big river she could not share. Somehow they had drifted off the trail marked on the map drawn by George Williams.
"Are you badly, badly hurted?" shouted Wee Willie Winkie, as soon as he was within range. "You didn't ought to be here." "I don't know," said Miss Allardyce ruefully, ignoring the reproof. "Good gracious, child, what are YOU doing here?" "You said you was going acwoss ve wiver," panted Wee Willie Winkie, throwing himself off his pony.
"I KNEW she didn't ought to go acwoss ve wiver, and I knew ve wegiment would come to me if I sent Jack home." "You're a hero, Winkie," said Coppy "a pukka hero!" "I don't know what vat means," said Wee Willie Winkie, "but you mustn't call me Winkie any no more. I'm Percival Will'am Will'ams." And in this manner did Wee Willie Winkie enter into his manhood.
'And nobody not even Coppy must go acwoss ve wiver, and I came after you ever so hard, but you wouldn't stop, and now you've hurted yourself, and Coppy will be angwy wiv me, and I've bwoken my awwest! I've bwoken my awwest! The future Colonel of the 195th sat down and sobbed. In spite of the pain in her ankle the girl was moved. 'Have you ridden all the way from cantonments, little man?
"And nobody not even Coppy must go acwoss ve wiver, and I came after you ever so hard, but you wouldn't stop, and now you've hurted yourself, and Coppy will be angwy wiv me, and I've bwoken my awwest! I've bwoken my awwest!" The future Colonel of the 195th sat down and sobbed. In spite of the pain in her ankle, the girl was moved. "Have you ridden all the way from cantonments, little man?
After father rode away, Buddy crept up and put his two short arms around mother. "Don't cry. I don't have to drink any water," he soothed her. He waited a minute and added optimistically, "Dere's a BI IG wiver comin' pitty soon. Oxes smells water a hunerd miles. Ezra says so. An' las' night Crumpy was snuffin' an' snuffin'. I saw 'im do it. He smelt a BIG wiver. THAT bi-ig!"
"Are you badly, badly hurted?" shouted Wee Willie Winkie, as soon as he was within range. "You didn't ought to be here." "I don't know," said Miss Allardyce, ruefully, ignoring the reproof. "Good gracious, child, what are you doing here?" "You said you was going acwoss ve wiver," panted Wee Willie Winkie, throwing himself off his pony.
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