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"Girls, don't move! We do not know what has occurred. Does any of you know where Mr. Grubb is?" "Yeth. He ith right here. I jutht touched hith whithkerth," answered Tommy in a weak, plaintive little voice. "I gueth he ith dead." The guardian clambered from the rear of the carry-all. The lantern had been extinguished by the shock.
If you wath to thee our Children in the Wood, with their father and mother both a dyin' on a horthe their uncle a retheiving of 'em ath hith wardth, upon a horthe themthelvth both a goin' a black- berryin' on a horthe and the Robinth a coming in to cover 'em with leavth, upon a horthe you'd thay it wath the completetht thing ath ever you thet your eyeth on!
"It would be too bad, now," said Ted, "if they managed to haul both of them up before we could get Hen in hand, and hear hith thory of what happened." "That's a fact," added Lil Artha. "We know the Chief, and that he'd take Hen back to town just like he was a real criminal.
"That is to be our next," Miss Elting informed them. "By the time we have finished that I think we shall be seasoned mountain climbers." "Yeth. And we'll have the habit so badly that we'll be climbing telephone poleth every day when we get home," averred Tommy. "I withh my father could thee me now. He wouldn't thay hith little girl wath lathy, would he?"
He went round as if he wath a theeking for a child he know'd; and then he comed to me, and thood on hith two fore-legth, weak ath he wath, and then he wagged hith tail and died. Thquire, that dog wath Merrylegth." "Sissy's father's dog!" "Thethilia's fatherth old dog. Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath dead and buried afore that dog came back to me.
"Ess?" said the Deacon unpleasantly. He puckered his brow and blinked, pretending not to understand. "Oh, a cuddy, ye know," said Toddle, colouring. "Gourlay'th stupid enough," lisped the Deacon; "we all know that. But there'th one thing to be said on hith behalf. He's not such a 'demned ess' as to try and thpeak fancy English!"
Dear me, who wath he, Freda? 'Longfellow, you mean, I suppose. 'Of courth. And hith language ith tho poetical. Mamma thaith the thouldn't wonder if he turned out a great author by-and-by. Thould you, Mith Hall? 'It takes so much to make a great author, dear; but it is just possible. 'But not probable, whispered Freda. 'Oh, Freda! don't you like him?
"He wath standin' on hith head, auntie," explained the judge, with great politeness, as the tumbler appeared too much confused by all the circumstances to make any answer. "Wath he, indeed?" laughed Thomas's mama. "Mashing his little head all to jelly; poor Tommy!" "No," said Tom, whose remarks were more noticeable for brevity than anything else. "No shelly."
"But no doubt," the cunning old prier went on, with a smiling suavity in his voice "but no doubt a man who knowth Edinburgh tho well as you will have a favourite blend of hith own. I notice that University men have a fine taste in thpirits." "I generally prefer 'Kinblythmont's Cure," said Gourlay, with the air of a connoisseur.
He went round to our children, one after another, as if he wath a theeking for a child he know'd; and then he come to me, and throwd hithelf up behind, and thtood on hith two forelegth, weak ath he wath, and then he wagged hith tail and died. Thquire, that dog wath Merrylegth. 'Sissy's father's dog! 'Thethilia'th father'th old dog.
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