'And now we are sitting and shining here!' said the
bit of bottle-glass.
I might be mista'en--but he like gave a sort of a whistle, and I saw a
bit of a smile on his face; and he said, "Oh, it's all stuff!
We had to go quite a
bit farther than usual before we could surround a little bunch of antelope, and as I was helping drive them, I saw a fine red deer a couple of hundred yards behind me.
"You may laugh if you want to, Miss Rose, I know my things are queer, and that's why I hide 'em; but I don't mind since you've found me out, and I ain't a
bit ashamed except of being so backward at my age," said Phebe humbly, though her cheeks grew redder as she washed out some crooked capitals with a tear or two not yet dried upon the slate.
"Will the Story have a Moral to it?" I asked Sylvie, while Bruno was away behind the hedge, dressing for the first '
Bit.'
and a wolly-wou, pully-wou," and then wid that he shoved up his two shoulders till the divil the
bit of his hid was to be diskivered, and then he let down the two corners of his purraty-trap, and thin not a haporth more of the satisfaction could I git out o' the spalpeen.
"But what a pity it is you should work of a Sunday, and not clean yourself--if you didn't go to church; for if you'd a roasting
bit, it might be as you couldn't leave it, being a lone man.
`Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, `it'll never do to come upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand
bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
They seem to keep a specially cutting east wind, waiting for me, when I go to bathe in the early morning; and they pick out all the three-cornered stones, and put them on the top, and they sharpen up the rocks and cover the points over with a
bit of sand so that I can't see them, and they take the sea and put it two miles out, so that I have to huddle myself up in my arms and hop, shivering, through six inches of water.
The major commanded a halt by merely halting, and, evidently himself a
bit "skeered," rode on alone to reconnoiter.
I scored the
bit about the Child with my pencil, and put a morsel of paper for a mark to keep the place; "Lie you there," I said, "till the marriage of Mr.
"Oh, just to be alive, to be living and doing, to be the biggest
bit of the ferment to the end, to eat you.
