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"Will she take her group for a swim in the Atlantic?" "Yeth, Harriet and mythelf are going to try to thwim acroth thith afternoon," Grace informed them. "Swim across the Atlantic? Mercy me!" answered Mrs. Livingston laughingly. "That would indeed be an achievement." "I beg your pardon, but I didn't thay 'acroth the othean'; I meant to thwim acroth the pond down in the cove yonder.
"They'll be lovely," answered Vinie. "I just somehow didn't think of fixing things up this Christmas. I'll put them all around the parlour, Mr. Adam." "I'll put them for you," said Adam. "This isn't mistletoe like you get in the big trees south, and it isn't holly such as grows down Williamsburgh way but it's mistletoe and it's holly." "Yeth," agreed Vinie listlessly.
Sam's been waystin' here eber since de fam'ly come from de city dey must o' fetch him long o' dem. Now I do 'spose sumtin is happen long o' Miss Miriam as went heyin' off to de willidge dis mornin' afore she got her brekfas, nobody on de yeth could tell what fur. Now de od-er two is gone, an' nobody lef here to mine de house, 'cept 'tis you an' me! Sam's waystin'!"
Isaac came behind Levi and gave his coat a pull and toddled off with a yell of delight. "Be quiet, Ikey!" cried Esther. "If you don't behave better I shan't sleep in your new bed." "Oh yeth, you mutht, Ethty," lisped Ikey, his elfish face growing grave. He went about depressed for some seconds. "Kids are a beastly nuisance," said Levi, "don't you think so, Esther?"
There is every reason why you should not, and not one why you should." "Yeth." Tommy turned over on her back. "Did you ever thwallow thalt water?" "I never did." "Then don't. It ith awful. Oh, I'm tho tired and I'm getting thleepy." Harriet roused herself instantly. She gave Tommy a brisk slap on one cheek.
"He may have made up his mind that he had to do some tall sprinting," said the other, "when he realized what a hornets' nest he'd stirred up back there." "Yeth," remarked Ted Burgoyne who had been listening to all this talk with certain ideas of his own, "and lots of times it ithn't tho very hard to get a lift on the road.
The rest is all so nice and dull, that it keeps us awake all day." Bobby stared, but said nothing. "Can you sing?" said one of the plump little old women. "Yeth, I can sing Dandy Jim." "Let's have it. I do love singing; it soothes me and keeps me awake."
"Yeth, hurry up and tell uth what's happened!" cried Ted Burgoyne, jumping off his perch, and hastening to the side of the panting boy. Landy seemed to swallow something that may have been threatening to choke him. Then making a great effort, he managed to say a few words. "Terrible thing's happened, fellows! Knocks the reputation of the Wolf Patrol all to smithereens!"
He took Bobby by the hand, and asked: "Can you talk, little lad?" "Yeth, thir," Bobby admitted, respectfully, "I like to talk." "I'll wager you do, now! Where did you live before you came here?" "With Papa and Mamma." "What, now, may your name be?" "Bobby, thir." "What is your papa's name?" "What is my papa's name?" "Yes, what is your papa's name?"
"It is, my dear," answered Mrs. Livingston. "You had better prepare yourself for it." "Yeth, I think tho, too. I think I will. I told the girlth what I would do. Here goeth." Tommy turned and ran toward the beach at full speed. "Come back, Tommy! Where are you going!" called Miss Elting. "I'm going to fool the rain. I'm going to get wet before the rain cometh."
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