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But now he goes upon his feet with a waddle like a sailor, and he wags his slider from side to side. Sometimes we play at hide-and-seek and we pop out at one another from behind the sofa. He lacks ingenuity in this, for he always hides in the same place. I have tempted him for variety to stow himself in the woodbox. Or the pantry would hold him if he squeezed in among the brooms.
Kelly's woodbox happened to be a convenient place for directing the floaters and the repeaters. Kelly's political importance grew apace. His respectability grew more slowly. But it had grown and was growing. If you had asked Lizzie, the maid, why she was a Democrat, she would have given no such foolish reason as the average man gives.
Altogether, with its small bedroom fireplace laid ready for a fire, and a blue denim-covered woodbox filled to overflowing with more wood She had forgotten to fill the woodbox, as yet. It was nearly time to dress for Jeannette's coming.
"Well, there are lots of things. I hoed potatoes and corn, first, but they're too big now, mostly; and I pulled up weeds, too, till they were gone. I've been picking up stones, lately, and clearing up the yard. Then, of course, there's always the woodbox to fill, and the eggs to hunt, besides the chickens to feed, though I don't mind THEM so much; but I do the other things, 'specially the weeds.
Jefferson, going on into the woodshed and returning with a well-balanced load of wood which put Georgiana's late attempt to the blush, assured her that he felt personally competent to attend to the woodbox without further aid from her, and marched away as if he were quite accustomed to such tasks.
No visitors were expected to-night, but the twins loved variety, and had arrayed the table in its best as a pleasant surprise for daddy. Joey was busiest of all. He had wailed loudly for a task, and Hannah had given him permission to fill the woodbox and the water-bucket. He was diligently carrying out her instructions, with one slight variation that showed him to be a true orphan.
The woodbox was ample and well filled, and the fireplace, a wide one, and the crackling flames felt most grateful to the wet refugees. Jack wanted to go after Farnsworth, but Daisy wouldn't hear of it, so he stayed with the girls. Soon Big Bill returned, smiling all over his good-natured face. "Not a soul in the whole house!" he reported. "I've been all over it, from attic to cellar.
You don't let me forget what a superior woman I married! Found it dead! And Arni plumped down on the woodbox. His wife laughed. I'll wager I hit the nail on the head that time! Arni jumped to his feet. That confounded old witch should not spoil his pleasure. You're as stark, raving mad as you always have been. But I don't care what you say. Kids, come and look at the fox your father has shot.
Young Thomas went in and sat down, wondering if all men felt so horribly uncomfortable when they went courting. Adelia stooped low over the woodbox to put a stick of wood in the stove, for the May evening was chilly. Her shoulders were shaking; the shaking grew worse; suddenly Adelia laughed hysterically and, sitting down on the woodbox, continued to laugh.
"No, I can't say that I do, when I'd already told you to fill the woodbox," rejoined the man, with uncompromising coldness. "You mean even then that I ought to have filled the woodbox first?" "I certainly do." David's eyes flew wide open again. "But my song I'd have lost it!" he exclaimed. "And father said always when a song came to me to play it at once.
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