Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie [pseud.] May
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end of the wagon, moving it up and down like a churn-dash.
"I do hope this wind will go down," sighed Emily. "Well, it will," said simple Flyaway; "I _hear_ it going." "It is head wind and a heavy sea," remarked the captain; "but never fear; we shall weather the storm. We are now on the southern coast of Ireland. I don't think," added she, in a different tone, "it is best to be shipwrecked, children--do you? We will hurry into Liverpool, and then I think it likely your little visitors may enjoy keeping house with your dolls, or having a nice swing." "I wish I could eat something," said Dotty, with a solemn face; "but I'm too sick." "So'm I," groaned Flyaway. "I couldn't eat noffin'--'cept cake." "If you are in such a condition as that," said the captain, "it is certainly high time we landed. And here comes a pilot boat with a signal flying. We will take the pilot on board," added she; drawing in another little girl. "And look! here we are now in Liverpool." "We must go to the Adelphi," said Octavia; "that is where Rollo went, and found his father, and mother, and Thannie. But the kitten didn't ever get there--did it, Miss Percival?" The voyage being ended, and with it the fearful seasickness, the children went to swinging, with their teacher to push them. |
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