Captain January
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. INTRODUCING IMOGEN AND BOB " TMOGEN ! " said Star, looking up from her book, J- " I don't believe you have been listening!" Imogen looked up meekly, but made no attempt to deny the charge. " Y...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. INTRODUCING IMOGEN AND BOB " TMOGEN ! " said Star, looking up from her book, J- " I don't believe you have been listening!" Imogen looked up meekly, but made no attempt to deny the charge. " You must listen! " said the child, sternly. " First place, it's beautiful: and besides, it's very rude not to listen when people reads. And you ought not to be rude, Imogen !" After which short lecture, Star turned to her book again,- a great book it was, lying open on the little pink calico lap, - and went on reading, in her clear childish voice: "' Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moony sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green:' Do you know what a fairy is, Imogen ?" asked Star, looking up again suddenly. But this time it was very evident that Imogen (who was, in truth, a large white cow, with a bell round her neck) was paying no attention whatever to the reading; for she had fairly turned her back, and was leisurely cropping the short grass, swaying her tail in a comfortable and reflective manner the while. Star sprang to her feet, and seizing the delinquent's horns, shook them with all her might. " How dare you turn your back when I am reading ? " she cried. " I'm just ashamed of you ! You're a disgrace to me, Imogen. Why, you are as ignorant as a - as - as a lobster! and you a great cow with four whole legs. A - a - ah! shame on you !" Imogen rubbed her head deprecatingly against the small pink shoulder, and uttered a soft and apologetic " moo;" but Star was not ready to be mollified yet. " And you know it's my own book, too ! " she continued, reproachfully. " My own Willum Shakespeare, t...
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