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Updated: June 23, 2025
Spencer turned back the folded blanket, and disclosed four roly-poly kittens all cuddled into one heap of fur. "Oh!" cried Delight, "did you ever see anything so lovely! Midget, I'm so glad you killed the goldfish! These are a million times nicer." "But you could have had these too," said Marjorie; "and anyway, I'll probably put these in the aquarium and drown them, by mistake!"
Its walls were papered with his favorite calendars: country scenes that reminded him of his farm boyhood; roly-poly babies in bathtubs; a pretty girl who looked, he said, like Grandma a funny idea to Rose-Ellen. Patched linoleum, doorstep hollowed by thousands of feet Grandpa looked at everything as if it were new and bright, and as if he loved it.
It was Kate who finally said with seeming irrelevance: "Uncle Joe brought home two collie puppies once fat, roly-poly little things that didn't do anything but play and eat, and they were oh, so innocent! They were into everything, and always under foot, afraid of nothing or nobody, because they never had been hurt. "One night a storm came up a cold rain that was almost snow.
Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of six years, the youngest of the Ingleside children. She had curly red hair and hazel eyes that were now buttoned up after the funny, wrinkled fashion in which Rilla always went to sleep. Shirley, "the little brown boy," as he was known in the family "Who's Who," was asleep in Susan's arms.
They separated at the designated point and according to instructions took their stand along the side of the walk from the gate to the steps. Billy stepped high, roly-poly little Bettie steered Martin Luther into place and Eliza had the joy of catching a glimpse of the pale face across the store-yard, peering out of the window with the greatest interest.
'Give yourself a chance, General, he would say; 'another slice of this roly-poly pudding may just turn the scale between you and Yellow Vulture. Look at the army they're victualling for a regular siege!
She was a little roly-poly creature, cushioned with fat, with podgy fingers squeezed in at the joints like rows of thick, short sausages; her skin tightly stretched and shiny, her bust enormous, and yet with it all so wholesomely, temptingly fresh and appetizing that it was a pleasure to look at her.
But dreary as this would seem to us, nest building is going on there this June day, as well as here. "Running lightly over uneven hummocks of grass are plump, roly-poly, black-and-white birds, with soft musical voices and the gentlest possible manners.
"Bless me," he gasped, "if there ain't a load. Pretty plucky whoever they are to travel this sort of weather." And gathering up himself and his glasses, he made as great speed towards the front of the house as his roly-poly figure and the heat would admit.
Moreover, they were eating up Queen Cor's provisions and crowding the houses of her own people, who grumbled and complained until their Queen was heartily tired. "Shame on you!" she said to her husband, King Gos, "to be driven out of your city by a boy, a roly-poly King and a billy goat! Why do you not go back and fight them?"
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