. Little Miss Peggy; only a nursery story . felt really obliged now andthen to put his feet upon the table for a change,one at a time, of course. For even he, cleveras he was, could not have got both togetherout of the bars of his chair without topplingover. Nurse had for some time past beenspeaking about beginning to break MasterBaby in, but so far it had not got beyondspeaking, and she contented herself with seat-ing him beside her and giving him a goodquarter of the table to himself, the only objec-tion to which was that it gave things in generala rather lop-sided appearance. At the two end
. Little Miss Peggy; only a nursery story . felt really obliged now andthen to put his feet upon the table for a change,one at a time, of course. For even he, cleveras he was, could not have got both togetherout of the bars of his chair without topplingover. Nurse had for some time past beenspeaking about beginning to break MasterBaby in, but so far it had not got beyondspeaking, and she contented herself with seat-ing him beside her and giving him a goodquarter of the table to himself, the only objec-tion to which was that it gave things in generala rather lop-sided appearance. At the two ends sat Baldwin and real name, of course, was Henry, thoughhe was never called by it. Baldwin, on thecontrary, had no short name, partly perhapsbecause mamma thought Baldie sounded sougly, and partly because there was somethingabout Baldwin himself which made one notinclined to shorten his name. It suited him so fcjaby, who rscjuircd a £rsat d*:al df roomto himsdf at tatk, baby rhoucgk h* kad 50 many tiling to do clarin^amj^. you szi, which <5rown-up chilarzn thinkauiftunnzciss&ry. H? dad to dram with in om fat kand and thtn in tfu otfuf*he had to dih his crust first in nuwis Cup oftra and niKT in Hali ju£ of milk to 5u whichtasttd but, and thtn wouIcV haw bun no doin£*;rfur if ht hadnt* had to stretch aIon<£ way across; and bssidts all this ht fdt^ally cblicgd now and thin to put hi J fist up-on, rhs. tabk for <dv chan££(onrat aft rm,of Co uf;$!J A BREAKFAST-PARTY. 3 well, for lie was broad and comfortable andslow. He was never in a hurry, and lie gaveyou the feeling that you neednt be in a hurryeither. There was plenty of time for every-thing, for saying the whole of his name as wellas for everything else. That made a lot of brothers, didnt it ? Five,counting baby, and to match them, or rathernot to match them—for five and one are not amatch at all—only one little girl ! She won-dered about it a good deal, when she hadnothi
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