ts and Uncles Are Coming
It er ullivers cely lig like feato live under a mistress no season or circumstances could ious for a family party, even if it been advisable to consult sister Glegg and sister Pullet about toms going to sc invite sister Deane time, said Mrs tulliver, `for srying to make t o my poor co ts and uncles.
`Yes, yes, said Mr tulliver. `Ask o come. I never a bit o talk s it matter w so nobody.
`ts ulliver; but Im sure t nor uncle, to leave em so muce for a leggicy. And ter Glegg, and sister Pullet too, saving money unkno by all terest and butter-money too - tulliver even a s a little when she has lambs.
`tculliver. `It takes a big loaf . signifies your sisters bits o money among? And your sister Deane get em to leave all to one, I reckon, and make try cry shey are dead?
`I dont kno em to do, said Mrs tulliver, `for my cs and uncles. Maggies ten times naugom doesnt like em, bless s more natral in a boy t ool, and t for an ogeto get off - I cant er Deanes, for ser Deane had.
`ell, o bring you ask t and uncle Moss too? and some o their children?
`O dear, Mr tulliver, put table, besides reacers and your sister dont suit ogether.
`ell, ulliver, taking up and to tulliver on all points unconnected ions; but sable family indeed - as muco as any in t to it. t to at an early age, for t tice of ticular family: particu-lar led gooseberries, so t no daug to tson. Funerals ed y in tbands t to be, and trouble or sickness, all t to visit tunate member, usually at time, and did not stering t disagreeable trut correct family feeling dictated: if trouble , it in tice of to s, tradition as to t and social demeanour, and tter circumstance attending ty y to approve ts or t of families ungoverned by tradition. A female Dodson, ea and declined any sort of preserves, ter and t to ferment from of due sugar and boiling. t ted - but in so far as ty better t is remarkable t isfied, not only ively. t member of a family - t cer - is often t epitome of ts and traditions, and Mrs tulliver is anyttle in ers, and still sears at terly reproac in Mrs tulliver to be an innovator on to o ook after least in ures and complexion, in liking salt, and in eating beans, wulliver never did.
In ots true Dodson ly latent in tom, and ing portable food s and uncles om from vie tom al letting o t, but to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight.
On ednesday, ts and uncles ive scents, as of plumcakes in t state, mingled it o feel altogetom and Maggie made several inroads into tco keep aloof for a time only by being alloo carry a load of booty.
`tom, said Maggie, as t on tree, eating tomorrow?
`No, said tom, slo.
`om? Beause Lucys coming?
`No, said tom, opening -knife and over tative manner. (It problem to divide t very irregular polygon into ts.) ` do I care about Lucy? S play at bandy.
`Is it tipsy-cake, ting ic poom he hovering knife.
`No, you silly, tll be good ter. Its t to be - apricot roll-up - O my buttons!
iterjection, t t satisfactory to tom, for ill eyed tfully. At last he said,
`S your eyes, Maggie.
` for?
`You never mind w for. S em well you.
Maggie obeyed.
`Now, ?
`Ill , said Maggie, keeping to please tom.
` like t, you silly. You may if it comes to you fair, but I s give it you . Rig - you com, in a tone of exasperation, as Maggie peeped. `You keep your eyes s, now, else you s have any.
Maggies po extend so far, indeed I fear s tom smost possible amount of puff t bit. So s e close, till tom told o `say w-hand.
`Youve got it, said tom, in ratter tone.
`, t ?
`No: ake it, said tom firmly, piece to Maggie.
`O, please, tom, : I dont mind - I like take this.
`No, I s, said tom, almost crossly, beginning on his own inferior piece.
Maggie, t o contend furtoo, and ate up y. But tom , and o look on knoom to almost everyt a vague sense of jam and idleness.
`O, you greedy tom, s to o . of one is naturally at a different point of vieer ones own share of puff is swallowed.
Maggie turned quite pale. `O tom, w you ask me?
`I going to ask you for a bit, you greedy. You mig of it , .
`But I ed you to - you knoone.
`Yes, but I going to do fair, like Spouncer. akes t bit, if you dont punc, and if you c , if I go be a greedy.
itting innuendo, tom jumped dotention to Yap, ion of bitterness. Yet t dog accepted toms attention y as if reated quite generously.
But Maggie, gifted superior poance from t melanc still on o ted reproac to en all o for tom. Not but t te at all obtuse, but s it many times over, sooner tom s - and se it t? tears floifully t Maggie sa ten minutes; but by t time resentment began to give o tion and so look for tom. o be gone, and Yap o t t ree, om; but sank again as so t river and t y Bob Jakin, ural function, of frig no a standstill. Maggie felt sure t Bob very distinctly kno stop barking, and er it, and screamed above to tell t to be frig beat error. Maggie t it very likely t ts in take off o som a little snake t , and anotime s: altogeter, perly diabolical, judging from imacy s; and to cro Maggie, and h him.
It must be o tom ly omtits or a yellos and could set all sorts of traps; rees like a squirrel, and e a magical poecting oats; and o do t y, sucones after s t o. Sucies in an inferior ed y in spite of al fascination for tom; and every ime Maggie o h Bob.
ell! t: but to sit do , refastle o just o be.
Maggies roublous life, and took her opium.
Meanting all about Maggie and ting of reproac in , ally, to t rat-catc ticular affair, and spoke of t eited of all manly feeling or pitiably ignorant of rat-catco imagine. For a person suspected of preternatural so very villainous-looking; ts close-curled border of red trousers test notice, and ue, supposing it to exist, ue in rags oriously likely to remainrecognised (per is seen so seldom).
`I knos, said Bob in a reble voice, as ing in. ` Sut Oggs - rot-catc-catco ts. But Lors! you mun s. Dogs is no good. dog, noinued, pointing to myself - I did - at t-catchers barn.
Yap, feeling tucked ail in and so toms leg, tle for to seem beempt for a dog who made so poor a figure.
`No, no, sport. Ill s and everything, when Ive done school.
`s, Measter tom, said Bob, eagerly, `te ferrets in a cage , ansee em fig. ts ud be better fun amost nor seein t t t o ts, an some o t tasted just as good, added Bob, by e or addendum, after a moments pause.
`But, I say, Bob, said tom, in a tone of deliberation, `ferrets are nasty biting te a fello being set on.
`Lors, y on em. If a c, be long before a good un - .
At t a striking incident made t er from among t a er-rat Bob intimated t o undergo t unpleasant consequences.
`om, clapping tle black snout made its arroo te bank. `Seize him, lad, seize him!
Yap agitated declined to plunge, trying as well.
`Ugom, and kicked ed as a sportsman to possess so poor-spirited an animal. Bob abstained from remark and passed on, co he overflowing river by way of change.
`, said Bob, as er up before to it. ` ear, t o er, they was.
`Ay, but, said tom, ion betatements t e accordant, `but ts all over the fields ever such a way.
I dont care about a flood comin, said Bob, `I dont mind ter, no more nor the land. Id swim - I would.
`A if you got noto eat for ever so long? said tom, ion becoming quite active under timulus of t dread. ` op of it, like Noay to eat in it - rabbits and t mind... And Id take you in, if I sa patron.
`I arent frigo Id get in, an knock ts on ted to eat em.
`A ails, said tom, not contemplating ty t tion migure age. `Id divide fair to begin hen wed see whod win.
`In got a of ter and tossing ails?
`tails, said tom, instantly fired o win.
`Its yeads, said Bob, ily, snatc fell.
`It , said tom, loudly and peremptorily. `You give me t fair.
`I s, said Bob, tig.
`t, said tom.
`You cant make me do not, said Bob.
`Yes, I can.
`No, you cant.
`Im master.
`I dont care for you.
`But Ill make you care, you c, said tom, collaring Bob and shaking him.
`You get out om a kick.
toms blood at Bob Bob seized it like a cat, and pulled tom doer ruggled fiercely on t or till tom, pinning Bob do ery.
`You say youll give me ty, he command of Bobs arms.
But at t, Yap, o tion, and saunity for biting Bobs bare leg not only y but eetead of surprising Bob into a relaxation of a fiercer tenacity, and ion of om back uppermost. But no purc eet Bob, go om and almost ttling Yap, flung o time tom of som fell upon .
`You give me tom.
`take it, said Bob, sulkily.
`No, I s take it - you give it me.
Bob took t of and t away from he ground.
tom loosed Bob to rise.
`t your it. But you ed to c: I e a c. I s go along urning round casting a regret to-catc relinquisy.
`You may let it alone, t after if I like - t, but Ill take care you dont... . An youre a nasty figurkey-cock, you are... .
tom looking round, and Yap followed ed his passions.
`Go along oting louder, in a last effort to sustain tom to be provoked into turning round, and Bobs voice began to falter a little as she said,
`An In gien you everyted noter toms retreating footsteps. But it produced no effect, except t terrible void in , no knife was gone.
ood still till tom e and disappeared be vex tom, and pride or resentment -knife. entreating t c familiar rougen grasped for mere affection as it lay idle in . And t been s is life a pocket-knife to asted a ence? No: to ter tc is a compre of desperation, but to t-knife after an implacable friend is clearly in every sense a o t quite a nec again after temporary separation, in opening one blade after t sensitive on t of a cer. t fine moral aroma muc of Bobs could self perceptible t, for all t, utterly a sneak and a tom ily decided.
But tom, you perceive, ice in ice t desires to culprits as muco be , and is troubled s concerning t amount of ts. Maggie saly tones into t is not pleasant to give up a rat-catc your mind on it. But if tom old rongest feeling at t moment, t ions; w.