. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . was cut up andtwo or three slices forced into Yans plate. Mebbe the butther is a little hoigh, exclaimedthe hostess, noting that Yan was sparing of on. She went again to the corner shelfand got down an old glass jar with scalloped edgeand a flat tin cover. It evidently contained lifted the cover and exclaimed: Well, Oi niver! Then going to the door shefished out with her fingers a dead mouse and threw\t out, remarking placidly, Oive wondered wh
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . was cut up andtwo or three slices forced into Yans plate. Mebbe the butther is a little hoigh, exclaimedthe hostess, noting that Yan was sparing of on. She went again to the corner shelfand got down an old glass jar with scalloped edgeand a flat tin cover. It evidently contained lifted the cover and exclaimed: Well, Oi niver! Then going to the door shefished out with her fingers a dead mouse and threw\t out, remarking placidly, Oive wondered whayerthe little divil wuz. Oi aint sane him this twowakes, an me a-thinkin it wuz Tom ate him. MayOi be furgiven the onjustice av it. Consarn them flies !That cover niver did fit. And again her finger wasemployed, this time to scrape off an incrustation ofunhappy flies that had died, like Clarence, in theirfavourite beverage. Thayer, Yan, now ate hearty, all av it, anwelcome. It does me good to see ye ate—thayerslots more whayer that come from, though it wasobvious that she had put her all upon the table, 213 Two Little Savages. Poor Yan was in trouble. He felt instinctivelythat the good old soul was wrecking her weeksresources in this lavish hospitality, but he also feltthat she would be deeply hurt if he did notappear to enjoy everything. The one possibly cleanthing was the bread. He devoted himself to that; itwas of poorest quality; one or two hairs looping inhis teeth had been discouraging, but when he bit ata piece of iinen rag with a button on it he was fairlyupset. He managed to hide the rag, but could notconceal his sudden loss of appetite. Hev some more av this an this, and in spite ofhimself his plate was piled up with things for himto eat, including a lot of beautifully boiled potatoes,but unfortunately the hostess carried them fromthe pot on the stove in a corner of her ancient andsomber apron, and served him with her skinny paw, Yans appetite was wholly gone now,
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