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Rewards and Fairies
Cissie he was sorry. That’s a great comedown for a on your complaints.”
Witchmaster, you know.
“I haven’t any complaints, Jerry,” I said. “It’s only to please
‘I was ashamed of myself for being so silly, and I dabbed Cissie.”
my eyes and said, “The least you can do now is to give poor ‘“I know that as well as you do, dearie,” he said. And—and
Ciss some sort of a charm for me.”
that was all that came of my going to give him a flogging. I
‘“Yes, that’s only fair dealings,” he said. “You know the names wonder whether he made poor Troubadour shy when I lashed
of the Twelve Apostles, dearie? You say them names, one by at him? Jerry has his ways of getting even with people.’
one, before your open window, rain or storm, wet or shine, ‘I wonder,’ said Una. ‘Well, did you try the charm? Did it
five times a day fasting. But mind you, ‘twixt every name you work?’
draw in your breath through your nose, right down to your ‘What nonsense! I told Rene about it, of course, because
pretty liddle toes, as long and as deep as you can, and let it out he’s a doctor. He’s going to be a most famous doctor. That’s
slow through your pretty liddle mouth. There’s virtue for why our doctor hates him. Rene said, “Oho! Your Master
your cough in those names spoke that way. And I’ll give you Gamm, he is worth knowing,” and he put up his eyebrows—
something you can see, moreover. Here’s a stick of maple, like this. He made joke of it all. He can see my window from
which is the warmest tree in the wood.”’ ‘That’s true,’ Una the carpenter’s shed, where he works, and if ever the maple
interrupted. ‘You can feel it almost as warm as yourself when stick fell down, he pretended to be in a fearful taking till I
you touch it.’
propped the window up again. He used to ask me whether I
‘“It’s cut one inch long for your every year,” Jerry said. “That’s had said my Apostles properly, and how I took my deep
sixteen inches. You set it in your window so that it holds up breaths. Oh yes, and the next day, though he had been there
the sash, and thus you keep it, rain or shine, or wet or fine, ever so many times before, he put on his new hat and paid
day and night. I’ve said words over it which will have virtue Jerry Gamm a visit of state—as a fellow-physician. Jerry never
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