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Pocket52 logol Electronics online - V1.4.7 “Take May Nell into the garden with you, Billy,” Mrs. Bennett said; “I shall be busy with the Saturday work, and she will be happier in the sunshine. And don’t speak of the earthquake,” she warned him aside; “she must forget that as fast as possible.”,Here Mrs. Wopp related for the hundredth time the account of the ketchup disaster.,“Had a fall, Billy?” Every one knew the boy.,“I reckon Joner hadn’t any too much light,” opined Mrs. Wopp.,“Choose your partners for a quadrille,” called Geordie, and once more the floor was filled. There was room for six sets and in one of these stood Mr. Wopp with his partner Nell, while at the capacious side of Mrs. Wopp was Howard.，CHAPTER XVIII.—A PAIR OF CHECKED TROUSERS.，She clapped him into her own warm bed, and incredibly soon things were sizzling over the alcohol lamp.，“Sure. All the kids. But Clarence especially,—he’s my son, you know.” Billy grinned.“Orl right, Mar,” answered Moses, dutifully, his mouth watering in anticipation of the goodies in prospect.

“Yes, yes, marmsey; but there’s night shops where a fellow can gobble education by the hunk, you know, and—” He paused. Even his own mother didn’t know the pang in his heart when he thought of Jean and Jimmy, and the others, going on together through the high school, perhaps the university.,“I dassent do it, Betty,” replied Moses. “Anyhow this ole pair of scissors ’d do the job better.”,Nell’s answer was somehow strangely muffled.,NEITHER boy nor dog paused till they came to the dusty road. There Bouncer stopped and ran excitedly about the spot where the big man had taken May Nell in his arms; doubled back on his track, stopped again, and looked up at Billy, perplexity written all over his face. Billy encouraged him with word and caress; but he came at last, put his nose against Billy’s knee, and whined apologetically.,“I did hunt the aigs,” lied the unhappy Moses who was afraid he was going to miss something.,“Put some sunshine into your voices children,” admonished Nell.,As she thought how dear and kind Moses had been to her, bringing this wonderful plant and the shell purse, not forgetting the peppermint bulls’ eyes, she went to sleep with the conviction that she must be the happiest girl in the world.,“I don’t give two whoops ef he does,” Betty was bubbling with suppressed mirth.,“Fer the love o’ Mike, kid, how did you git here?” said Moses, rousing the small sleeper. “Gosh, but yer face needs warshin’.”,The kettle which had been boiling itself hoarse for the last hour, was now called into requisition.,“I’ll take all the blame Mosey.”,“Ugh! Confound their impudence, I’ll make them listen yet to something else than rag.”.