What the Seven Did

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...I! Now then: One, two, three! away you imust fly!" Whew! and a puff! And whew! and a sneeze! Up flew another pig, as smart as you please. "I say, stop--stop!" ' He cried with a hop: "You don't know the first thing--neither of you two: If you want to learn to dance, do just as I dol" With a curvet and a spin, In the midst of the din, Prim flew back into her red-leather chair to escape the storm of applause that greeted her first appearance in public as a poetess. Everybody asked to have it repeated, and Trip howled out his request above all other voices. The fathers and mothers clapped more than the children; and Deacon Raymond, who was always afraid it was going to rain, being provided with his umbrella, fished it out from under his chair, and pounded an accompaniment on the floor, to signify his appreciation of Cosy's little friend. "Prim is real pretty, and she's good," said Mrs. Bunce, turning again to Mrs. Raymond; "and I declare now if she ain't awful smart, " she added decidedly. "I declare if she ain't"--"Well, Piggy-wigs," said Sam Curran, crowding up to the Wordsworth Club while the audience was filing out, " you make me proud that Fairburn has a society whose very atmosphere is so poetical. Shades of the departed William! how he'd be after you if he could, using his name so."....... D "It's hard enough to have to repeat poetry," said Prim, try ing to look grave, "without being railed at afterward, Sam." "Goodness! don't I know that?" cried Dick Raymond sympathetically; "I never came so near bolting through a window in my life as I did that night that I...