A Fool There Was

He didn't care for school, particularly; still, it wasn't difficult enough to cause much discomfort. The natal pains of study were not by any means unbearable inasmuch as he was quick to see a

s usually first-that is, when Tom Blake wasn't

t, serious eyes of gray-blue, like those of his father. His mouth and chin we

learned to walk on his hands in a manner that caused acute envy to rankle in the bosom of every boy in the neighborhood. Also, as is

been told that she was lithe, and dainty and very pretty. And she was feminine, very, and yet not unhoydenish; for she played much with Jack Schuyler and Tom Bl

the broad windows upon a tumbled heap of discarded playthings, and upon a floor strewn with that which might have appeared to be drifting snow but which in reality was feathers; for there had been a fierce pillow figh

masses of her gold-brown hair little clinging bits of down. Tom Blake, beside her lay flat upon h

chuyler sat up,

t looks like a snowslid

ver on his stomach

at," he said. "Dad wo

uests, you know…. Wh

n Blai

time I think I've got hold of one, I find it's a hair." She shifted,

r shoulder, he plucked, with clumsy masculine fingers at the b

t she's awfully good; and she doesn't fuss a bit" … She turned around, suddenly, violet eyes wide with exciteme

ack Schuyler bo

ey cried alm

ded, pr

ers. You know baby brothers are bashful. Dr. DeLancey told me all about it. They li

r rose up on

d a baby brother and all he got was a sist

d out the windo

imes they get 'em mixed, I guess…. And anyhow, sisters aren't so bad. I wish I had one right now-one

braids of her hair ba

d things. And people don't give them dolls when they'd rather have rocking h

huyler

'll send over for you when it

and Kathryn Blair sat, foreheads grooved in t

It looked just like Fiddles." Fiddles was the plethoric Maltese member of the

, its cosmogony disrupted to such an extent that it felt itself no longer able to distinguish friend from foe, tried to turn back with the result that its first pursuer fell over it. There was the added result that the next two pursuers tripped upon the

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