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240 SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN.
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" Happen I could do it , wi' showin ' , " said Dorothy innocently . " No , thank you / ' said the other , with a faint smile and a shake
of the head . " Ye seem very sorely , " said Dorothy , _scrutinising the pale
countenance with alarm ; " hut ye don't seem to cough nothing to signify this last day or two . "
" No , the cough is not so harassing , Dorothy . " said Doroth " wh y breathed ' ve no a matter long si o g h coals . " . Well I must , I nmn tell mend Smith yer to fire "bring , " she ye
; y ye a stone . I ' ve got to go to Russell Square . " And the good loquacious soul rig'hted the invalid ' s bedgave her a cup of cold water , "
, bade the children " be good an' not want snubbin' ; " and then went bustling out of the room .
As soon as she was gone , the children began anew their complaints , and the motherwho had an anguished consciousness of the true
cause , was nearl , y exhausted with her efforts to soothe and quiet them . Annie wept much because Johnny wouldn't ride in the
chair , and Johnny protested that Annie " always wanted to be the horse . " After much persuasion she induced Johnny to ride , and then
tied a string' round Annie ' s waist and attached it to a chair . But " being the horse" didn't appear to yield the _xisixal satisfaction ,
and Johnny's whip , contrary to usage , was seldom , in operation . to After his going mother two he or inquired three rounds S 6 Why he they suddenl hadn y 't dismounted had their breakfast , and going ?"
" My dears , " said the mother faintly , " I haven't got anything to eat for you yet : when father comes he ' 11 perhaps give us some
money , and then you shall go for some bread . " 66 we can ' t wait , can we , Annie ?"
" No , we can't . " " Well , but you know I haven't got anything , so don't tease , there ' s
. dears ; I'm very bad indeed to-day . " " But didn't the waistcoat man send some money ?"
" No , and so you must _Tbe patient till father comes . " " I don't like patient , " said Johnny _petiilantly _,. as he returned to
his coach . peevishl Annie y tugged out of and the pulled string a declared few moments [ that she , and 6 c didn then 't want stepping to
, play , " and sitting down upon the _fLoor began to cry energetically .
What was now to be done was a question . " Come to me" said the mother at last" and I'll tell you a little
, , tale if you'll "be good . You make me so bad when you cry . " Both the children were at the bedside in an instant .
" Don't let it be about Joseph and Moses and all them , " suggested Johnny . Ci Tell us something about lions , or giants , or something . "
The , mother pondered a moment and then commenced an original taleslightly plagiaristic in . some details , but combining the
mar-, vellous and the horrible in proportions undreamed of in any written
story . For some time the children listened ' with bated breath , and
240 Seamstresses Again.
240 SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/24/
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