Fear of darkness

Fear of darkness Register +128K What matter if the telegraph poles that were to be just twelve feet—that is, twelve inches—fell short or long sometimes.,To stay the cloud that began to gather over Moses’ brow, Howard suggested going to see a vaudeville show.,“Ugh! Confound their impudence, I’ll make them listen yet to something else than rag.”,Mrs. Bennett called. The cats walked leisurely to the hearth, sat down, one on either side, and began to eat, each from his own side of the plate. They were as deliberate and dainty as well-bred children.,“Oh, Billy, don’t ask me. I can’t bear to think of it. But I almost forgot,—your mother said if I saw you to tell you to go by the store and get a loaf of bread. There’s the train!”，“The children will get too tired,” the Snake Charmer warned.，However, the stove-pipe was at last cleaned and ready to put up. Moses’ moroseness had by now developed into a complaint, the chief symptoms of which were sniffling and coughing.，St. Elmo hung back, electing to stay with the hero who had rescued him from the dangers of the wood.“Not yet, but they must all go to-night.”

Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled,’”,“A dose of senner tea’ll fix that, my boy,” was Mrs. Wopp’s cheerful rejoinder.,“This here thing looks like a mule with his ribs druv in an’ stan’in’ on his haunches. What d’ye call it?”,“It’s a hurry-up order for more,” Billy amended.,“Easy, mates. Kids, belay there, till we launch her!” This to the gaping youngsters always in the way.,“La now! An’ why do you say that, my dear?” inquired Mrs. Wopp. “Set up straight, Moses, yer back looks like you was packin’ a sack of pertaters.”,“Shan’t we defer the ceremonies till we can get Charley’s little sister and Jackson’s two weeks’ old brother?” Jimmy asked, disagreeably.,“I carn’t think what’s happened to my carrots this year,” said Mrs. Wopp, vexedly, after a time. “Hardly any hev come up, an’ them as did come, aint growed much. We’ll shorely not hev many carrot puddin’s nor pies this winter, nor mulligans neither.” The concluding part of this speech was of vital interest to Moses, who delighted in all the delicacies mentioned.,“You never give my cats a chance,” Billy complained.,“Why, Billy? I don’t believe in whipping unless all else fails.”,“Good dog! I understand you, Bouncer, and I’m not lonesome any more.”,In his overcoat Mr. Zalhambra seemed to fill the doorway as Mrs. Newman greeted him. A moment’s private talk and the hostess understood the situation. From the drawing-room a ripple of childish laughter reached their ears..