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In spite of the heavy smashing of head-on seas the SPRITE held her course straight out. "Where's she going, anyway?" marvelled little Mr. Smith, the stationer. "She's away beyond the wrecks already." "Probably Marsh has found the seas heavier than he thought and is afraid to turn her broadside," guessed his companion. "Afraid, hell!" snorted a riverman who overheard.
Heedless of its hundred arms, so generally dreaded and avoided, she jumps this way and that across its wide mouth; and now, seated on its back, she snatches morsels from its shrinking side. Now look at her sister sprite, Crazy Kate. Her head adorned with a long plume of Coralline, she is tearing ribbon-like shreds from the silky lettuce and hanging them upon her already fantastic person.
Nemily says so," answered Gladys. "You always want to do what Mrs. Nemily pleases, don't you?" "Oh yes," said the sprite, dancing round the room; and off they set into the garden. "And so do we all," said Barbara. Gladys was sitting at Emily's feet now, and had a little covered basket in her hand, which rustled as if it contained some living thing.
She had intended to walk to school with Rose and Sprite, but Sprite, not quite ready, had asked Polly to go along, and she would soon be ready, and would overtake her. Gyp saw her coming, and stopped laughing. "Jiminy!" he ejaculated. "Somebody ought ter do suthin'!" A second later he cried: "Stop! Oh, stop just a minute, will ye? I'll fix that puddle!" Polly did stop.
Oh! of all things, all-ll things on this planet I don't know what we may find on any other that's 'banner', it's a marshmallows toast out-of-doors isn't it?" chanted Una, intoning her delight to the trees, the low spruce and pine scrub, as she skipped among them, an evergreen sprite, herself, for she, too, now wore the "bonnie green", the Camp Fire short skirt, middy blouse and captivating Tam-o'-shanter most nymph-like note in dress for daughters of the woodland.
"Why, what a shrimp it is! a mere goblin sprite! What's thy name, master wag?" "Peregrine Oakshott, so please you," the boy answered, raising himself with a face scared indeed, but retaining its queer impishness. "Sir, I never guessed " "Young rogue! have you our licence to waylay our loyal subjects?" demanded the King, with an affected fierceness.
But a moment after, pushing him from her with the old mischief sparkling from her eyes, she said, "'Til frown and be perverse, and say thee nay, so thou wilt woo," and looked a saucy challenge in his face. "Naughty sprite!" he exclaimed, catching her in his arms and shutting her mouth with kisses.
But I looked back, and it was not coming; so I leaned against a rock and rested and panted, and let my limps go on trembling until they got steady again; then I crept warily back, alert, watching, and ready to fly if there was occasion; and when I was come near, I parted the branches of a rose-bush and peeped through wishing the man was about, I was looking so cunning and pretty but the sprite was gone.
Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy. The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next. SECOND STORY. A Little Boy and a Little Girl
If you and mother hadn't worked so hard to get me ready for the long visit, I'd give it up now. I'd rather go back with you." "Tut, tut, Sprite! Be a brave lassie, and try to make the trip bravely. Ye need the good schooling and the merry playmates. The Winter at the shore is always dull. Cheer up, now. We're to have a letter, remember, as soon as ye reach Avondale."
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