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All the other boys were for turning back and hunting about Fingal's Creek again, all except Bud. Such a pink and white boy he was, with a dimple in each cheek and a blowsy tow head. "Will you stay with me, Bud, till I get up there?" I asked him. "Yeth thir! or down there. Let'th go round an' try the other thide." "Well, I guess we'll all stay with Phil, you cottontop," Tell Mapleson put in.
"Yeth, leave it to me," she urged. "I can take care of mythelf. Buthter ith right, for once in her life. Leave it to me." They agreed to do so. Harriet turned to Miss Elting. "You promised to tell us the legend that belongs to this shelf of rock on which we are encamped. If not too long a story, will you relate it now?"
"You mean about the fellow who tried to make you believe he was I?" "Yes. But perhaps you have forgotten our telling you that the man wore goggles?" "Well, I swum!" Janus stroked his whiskers nervously. "Yeth. Tho did Harriet. And thhe got wet," observed Tommy flippantly. "Later on that same evening," continued Miss Elting, "we saw the man again on the porch at the post-office.
The wicked young Lieutenants who served with him on the Plains used to say that his bark was worse than his bite, because no reasonable bite could ever be so bad as his bark. They even suggested calling him "Peruvian Bark," because a visit to his quarters was worse than a strong does of quinia. "Yeth, that'th good," said the lisping wit of the crowd. "Evely bite ith a bit, ain't it?
"Haven't you got some fireworks for the Fourth, Pussy?" he said, looking down at his little companion. "Oh, yeth," she lisped, "pin-wheelth, and crackerth, and thnaketh, and heapth of thingth." "What a time we'll have," he said. "Shall we look at them now?" "Oh, yeth," the little girl replied, and ran across to her father, "can we thee them now?" "No, not now," the father replied.
Vinie brought a pitcher beaded with cool well water, and then a salver spread with fanciful shapes cut from the delicate green rind of melon and ready for preserving. Mrs. Selden drank the well water and approved Vinie's skill; then, "Your brother's gone to North Garden," she said abruptly. "Mr. Rand's affairs must keep him busy." "Yeth, ma'am. Tom comes and goes," said Vinie wistfully.
Our camping out was cut short, for with so many rainy days we just had to give it up." "Yeth, after three of the fellowth came down with bad cases of malarial fever. The mothquitoes were so plentiful." "That was some news to me to find out that a certain breed of mosquitoes are the only ones that give you the malarial poison when they smack you." "Huh!
His dress was superior to that of the locality; his general expression that of a man of the world, albeit a world of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Murderer's Bar. He advanced towards her with a laugh and an outstretched hand. "YOU here!" she gasped, drawing back. Apparently neither surprised nor mortified at this reception, he answered frankly, "Yeth. You didn't expect me, I know.
"Now, Ernest, you are not taking pains: you are not trying as you ought to do. It is high time you learned to say 'come, why, Joey can say 'come, can't you, Joey?" "Yeth, I can," replied Joey, and he said something which was not far off "come." "There, Ernest, do you hear that? There's no difficulty about it, nor shadow of difficulty.
"Tommy, did you ever have any one fall at your feet!" "Yeth. You know Jake Thpooner? Well, he had a conniption fit, one day, in the thtreet, and fell down right at my feet." "You mean an epileptic fit. But you shouldn't joke about a serious matter like that," rebuked Miss Elting. "I wathn't joking. He did. It wath Buthter who laughed. I didn't. But Buthter ith fat, you know.
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