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And, if you'll believe it, the third time old Joe Wilkings shouted "Get up" in that voice of his, a-staring straight at Worble all the time, old Worble did slowly get up and stood, doddering, but without support.
Worble hasn't walked from one room to another without assistance for " "I know seven years," said old Joe, "and he's seventy-six; and his aunt Susan's seventy-one; and his aunt Susan's mother's ninety-two, and bedridden but I tell you what: it's all fudge and the undue influence of imagination that's the whole story.
When youth chuckles, it's a sign of good spirits and healthy. If you must know, I was thinking we might have a picnic just like we used to have sixty years back " "Ah! that would be nice," said Kate. "Not you," said old Joe. "No young 'uns in it they're too slow. No; I and Georgie Worble, and his aunt Susan, and her mother, and " "Why," said Kate, "Mr.
When the day arrived for the ball for they called it a "ball" now, bless you all the young people agreed together to lock the old parties in their rooms to prevent them going; but bless me if old Peter Scroutts and old George Worble, and one or two other desperate characters didn't manage to get out somehow, being so under the influence of Joe; and when the hour came for the dance, there they were at the schoolroom!
It was all the outcome of his wonderful determination the influence of mind over matter. He could bamboozle anyone, could Joe it was for all the world like magic. Old Worble was drooping over the fire in his big chair, into which he had been put hours before.
"Don't you stand a-doddering at me like that as if you were a decrepit old idiot instead of a boy; but just reach down your hat and bustle along," said old Joe; and if Worble, after looking feebly and hopelessly up at the hat on the high peg the hat he had not worn for years didn't hop up on a wooden chair and fetch it down, and dash it on his head, and then toddle downstairs and into the street arm-in-arm with old Joe!
If people had stared when old Joe came out of his garden, what did they do now when he and old Worble went dancing down the street arm-in-arm, both of 'em chuckling like mad and chattering like magpies? At the corner they met old Peter Scroutts in a bath-chair.
What did old Joe do but go right up and slap him on the back in that hearty way that old Worble went as near screaming as his weak state would let him! "Get up, Georgie Worble," shouted old Joe," and come round with me to Sam Waggs to arrange about that picnic!" Old Worble crooned and doddered, and feebly repeated "Picnic?" "Ah, picnic, young 'un; and you've just hit it. But GET UP, I say!"
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