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“I mix up words that way sometimes, too,” the child excused.,May Nell was astonished at the country appetites, astonished at her own; yet the cream also disappeared; after which Bess, the magnificent, rose, waved her hand theatrically toward Mrs. Bennett, and declaimed,,“Oh, my conscience! That isn’t any matter. All the grandest actors have the dying parts; and they die gloriously; and the audience claps and claps and claps; and the curtain goes up, and they all come out alive again and bow and smile; and you eat some candy and don’t cry any more.”,BILLY did not lift his face from the pillow; he was striving to steady throat and voice.,To-day she was happy. It had fallen to her to general this great feast that Billy’s mates had planned for the celebration of his birthday. All had contributed. Not only the girls had cooked—Jean had baked a big cake, Jackson had made the candy, and Jimmy and George had sneaked up from the “Front,” and set up the long table in the arbor.,“Poor little chaps! They’ve been talking circus for a month.”,“No quarreling now. Come, Clarence, do as your mother asks.”,Mrs. Crump smiled kindly at the impressionable boy, and lest her son’s evident amusement should wound his feelings, she asked, “Do you like hearing of other countries and of other people?”,“Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards,” quoted Mrs. Wopp. “We’ve had sich a time, but I’m shore our li’l Mornin’-Glory is gittin’ better now.” She gazed at the child with true maternal affection. “She’s lookin’ kinder peart agin.”,“No; I’ll do it first thing to-morrow.” He tried vainly to change the subject. “I—”,“Was it as bad as that?” She smiled, and smoothed back the thick, tumbled hair.,They all went off, a merry, noisy troop. And the disappearing sun was the last to say to Billy “Good-night.”.