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The three children were sitting together in a bunch upon the rug in the gloaming. Baby was talking so Daddy behind his newspaper pricked up his ears, for the young lady was silent as a rule, and every glimpse of her little mind was of interest. She was nursing the disreputable little downy quilt which she called Wriggly and much preferred to any of her dolls.
"I wonder if they will let Wriggly into heaven," she said. The boys laughed. They generally laughed at what Baby said. "If they won't I won't go in, either," she added. "Nor me, neither, if they don't let in my Teddy-bear," said Dimples. "I'll tell them it is a nice, clean, blue Wriggly," said Baby. "I love my Wriggly." She cooed over it and hugged it.
It would be better for her than staying behind with the Rajah. I always call him 'the slithy tove. He is so narrow and wriggly. He wanted me to kiss him once, but I wouldn't. He looked so so mischievous." Tessa tossed her golden-brown head. "Besides, I only kiss white men." "Hear, hear!" said Tommy, who was cleaning his pipe on the verandah. "You stick to that, my child!"
Finally the situation grew painful; but it was not that British grenadier who grew embarrassed and fidgety it was the other party to the transaction. His gaze never shifted, his eyes never wavered but I came away feeling all wriggly. In no outward regard whatsoever do the soldiers on the Continent compare with the soldiers of the British archipelago.
Secluded in their kitchen living-room the Appleboys heard a motor arrive and through a crack in the door saw it carry Mrs. Tunnygate away bedecked as for some momentous ceremonial. At four o'clock, while Appleboy was digging bait, he observed another motor making its wriggly way along the dunes.
He took his shovel and actually dug some worms from the garden, long, wriggly worms "night-walkers," the boys call them and placed them in a can, and presto! that too went into his pocket, the seventh. And now all the pockets were filled. And, mind you, he did all this by himself.
Off to bed!" They got up resignedly, for they were really very good children. "Say your prayers here before you go," said the Lady. The three little figures all knelt on the rug, Baby still cuddling her Wriggly. "You pray, Laddie, and the rest can join in." "God bless every one I love," said the high, clear child-voice.
"Oh!" gasped Marjorie, remembering Mignon's threat, "she is reporting poor Ellen." The door swung open again and the secretary glided past her and out into the corridor with the peculiar sliding gait that had caused Jerry to liken her to a "nice, wriggly snake." "She is going to bring Ellen here," guessed Marjorie.
He was looking at a little boat which was on its way towards the foot of the wriggly ladder. A schooner with the low sun climbing down her rigging breathed on the breathing sea not far away. The tide was high. The oars of the little boat suddenly wavered and were paralysed. One of the rowers made a quick movement with his hand.
And she has got a drop of water full of wriggly things all alive; and she says we drink it by the gallon, and it is no wonder we feel bad in our insides. I'll go, right enough. I suppose you have the money ready?" "No, Tom, that's just what I have not got.
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