Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... the professor, pushing his chair back from the table. The boy stood still, a sudden look of obstinacy sweeping over his small, round face. "I'se not Oliver," he said slowly. "I'se pretending I'se a little boy what doesn't ring bells." "l'SE NOT OLIVER,... 1'se Pretend1ng 1'se A L1ttle Boy WHAT DOESN'T RING BELLS." "Now that is ingenious!" exclaimed Dr. Carson. "Yet I think it portrays a sense of moral responsibility, in so much as it required an assumed change of identity to shift the responsibility," observed the professor. "I think I will make a note of that," and he rang the bell on his way to the writing-table. "Please, sir, cook bought these oranges as a treat for the children," said nurse when she appeared with the matches. Wild delight instantly followed, for there were not many treats in this grim, grey house in Bloomsbury. "Oranges are splendidly interesting things," said Roger; "the taste is so interesting, and the peel 'cause of making a pig and a set of false teeth, and the pips can be planted, and you can play at ball with it before eating. There is only one bad thing about oranges." "What is that?" asked Dr. Carson. "They make your pocket-handkerchief smell so nasty for several days. You see orangey smell isn't nearly so jolly as orangey taste, and you get a little tired of it every time you blow your nose." "I should say," began the professor, looking up from his note-book, "that the conscientious and the affectionate faculties develop earlier in a girl--the reasoning and ambitious ones in a boy." "And continue the strongest all through life," added his friend. The little boys had been running round the table, but a piercing shriek from the baby indicated that the game had come to an abrupt termination. "He can't be my horse any more," said...
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