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Updated: June 13, 2025
There was an uncomfortable silence. "Oh, dear," said Bobbie, with a sigh, "I do believe you're CROSS." "What, me? Not me!" said Perks loftily; "it ain't nothing to me." "What AIN'T nothing to you?" said Peter, too anxious and alarmed to change the form of words. "Nothing ain't nothing. What 'appens either 'ere or elsewhere," said Perks; "if you likes to 'ave your secrets, 'ave 'em and welcome.
I was trying to think of something as 'ud amuse him only this morning, and I couldn't think of anything better than a guinea-pig. And a young chap I know's going to fetch that over for him this tea-time." "How lovely! A real live guinea! He will be pleased. But he'd like the Magazines as well." "That's just it," said Perks.
I'm not going to begin these sort of charity goings-on at my time of life, so don't you think it, Nell." "Oh, hush!" said poor Mrs Perks; "Bert, shut your silly tongue, for goodness' sake. The all three of 'ems in the wash-house a-listening to every word you speaks."
She stood by the back door reflecting on these gloomy possibilities, her eyes fixed on the water-butt. "I wish I'd never been born," she said, and she said it out loud. "Why, lawk a mercy, what's that for?" asked a voice, and Perks stood before her with a wooden trug basket full of green-leaved things and soft, loose earth. "Oh, it's you," she said.
I seem to think she shouted here too, and snubbed you, because you were gentle and shy. See how her stone perks up, making every inch it can of itself, while yours tries to sink away and hide itself in the good green grass. I think we liked the same things a good deal, Susan, don't you?
And this is true not only in regard to Christianity, but in regard to everything that is worth doing in this world. Whenever some great and noble task presents itself with its solemn call for consecration, some dwarf of an apparent duty thrusts itself in between and perks up in our faces with its demand, 'Attend to me first, and then I will let you go on to that other.
"The 11.54's a bit late, Miss the extra luggage this holiday time," and went away very quickly into that inner Temple of his into which even Bobbie dared not follow him. Perks was not to be seen, and Bobbie shared the solitude of the platform with the Station Cat.
Why, it's a birthday such as Perks never 'ad, not even when 'e was a boy and stayed with his uncle, who was a corn chandler in his own account. He failed afterwards. Like it? Oh " and then she went on and said all sorts of things that I won't write down, because I am sure that Peter and Bobbie and Phyllis would not like me to.
"Oh, DON'T!" cried Bobbie, trying hard to be braver than Phyllis, and to find more words than Peter had done for explaining in. "We thought you'd love it. We always have things on our birthdays." "Oh, yes," said Perks, "your own relations; that's different." "Oh, no," Bobbie answered. "NOT our own relations.
It was on this day that the children first noticed that all engines are not alike. "Alike?" said the Porter, whose name was Perks, "lor, love you, no, Miss. No more alike nor what you an' me are. That little 'un without a tender as went by just now all on her own, that was a tank, that was she's off to do some shunting t'other side o' Maidbridge. That's as it might be you, Miss.
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