Children's own library . adalready passed the outposts of the town, and gained thecorner of the street where Caleb and his daughter lived;and long before they reached the door, he and the BlindGirl were on the pavement waiting to receive them. Boxer, by the way, made certain delicate distinctionsof his own, in his communication with Bertha, whiehpersuades me fully that he knew her to be blind. Henever sought to attract her attention by looking at her,as he often did with other people, but touched her in-variably. Therefore he had hold of Bertha, by theskirt, and kept hold, until Mrs. Peerybing
Children's own library . adalready passed the outposts of the town, and gained thecorner of the street where Caleb and his daughter lived;and long before they reached the door, he and the BlindGirl were on the pavement waiting to receive them. Boxer, by the way, made certain delicate distinctionsof his own, in his communication with Bertha, whiehpersuades me fully that he knew her to be blind. Henever sought to attract her attention by looking at her,as he often did with other people, but touched her in-variably. Therefore he had hold of Bertha, by theskirt, and kept hold, until Mrs. Peerybingle and theBaby, and Miss Slowboy, and the basket, were all gotsafely within doors. May Fielding was already come; and so was hermother—a little querulous chip of an old lady with a THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. 53 peevish face, who, in right of having preserved a waistlike a bedpost, was supposed to he a most transcendentfigure; and who, in consequence of having once beenbetter oif, was very genteel and patronizing indeed. 54 THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable;with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at homeas a fresh young salmon on the top of the Great Pyra-mid. May! My dear old friend! cried Dot, running upto meet her. What a happiness to see you!n Her old friend was, to the full, as hearty and as gladas she; and it really was a pleasant sight to see themembrace. Tackleton was a man of taste, beyond allquestiou. May was very pretty. Tackleton had brought his leg of mutton, and, won-derful to relate, a tart besides, and in addition to thesedainties, there were the Veal and Ham-Pie, and things,as Mrs. Peerybingle called them; which were chieflynuts and oranges, and cakes, and such small the repast was set forth on the board, flanked byCalebs contribution, which was a great wooden bowl ofsmoking potatoes, Tackleton led his intended mother-in-law to the Post of Honor. Caleb sat next his daughter; Dot and her old sc
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