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Bills had been talking himself hoarse over the merits of the apron, while his audience were watching Howard and Jack, with a feeling of certainty that they were intending to bid, but they were not prepared for Tim's one dollar, which startled every one and none more so than his mother, who, having rolled up her spotted gown "in a wopse," as she said, and put it with her dish pan and towels, had come back in time to hear Tim's astonishing bid.
William looked down at his sacred uniform and scowled. "I'm a scout," he said loftily. "'Cout?" repeated the apparition, with an air of polite boredom. "Wot's your name?" "William." "Mine's Thomas. Will you catch me a wopse? Look at my wopses!" He opened the bag slightly and William caught sight of a crowd of wasps buzzing about inside the bag. "Want more," demanded the infant. "Want lots more.
"Oh, wopse it up anyway," he said, "and tangle some jade beads in it. She'll stand that." His orders were carried out and Beer clasped her hands in silent ecstasy at the result of the combined efforts of herself and her master. "Some day, Warble," Bill said, "I'll teach you how to dress becomingly."
Then ye'll hold the hoss till I go an' git yer pa, and then we'll wopse 'im up in some blankits, an' make a clean streak for the woods. It'll be late Sunday mornin' afore any body knows he's gone, and there won't be no people on the road where we are goin', and ef we're druv into cover, I know where the cover is. Jim Fenton's got friends on the road, and they'll be mum as beetles.
These were arranged with ever so many tapes on the inside, and would readily tie up into the most ravishing bunches and puffs how Lu and Kathie, wee-est mites of women though they were, did envy Winnie her tapes! Their mammas didn't know how to loop a dress witness their little skirts pinned back into what Kathie called a "wopse."
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