From e0ce6898d6733a4ce57790a1a0e4c09f5871a171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronan Crowley Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:00:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tagged @who per #19 --- u13_nausica.xml | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/u13_nausica.xml b/u13_nausica.xml index 6dd047a..3bf963c 100755 --- a/u13_nausica.xml +++ b/u13_nausica.xml @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ and, though still a tiny toddler, was just beginning to lisp his first babyish words. Cissy Caffrey bent over to him to tease his fat little plucks and the dainty dimple in his chin. -―Now, baby, Cissy Caffrey said. Say out big, big. I want a drink of water.

+―Now, baby, Cissy Caffrey said. Say out big, big. I want a drink of water.

And baby prattled after her: -―A jink a jink a jawbo.

+―A jink a jink a jawbo.

Cissy Caffrey cuddled the wee chap for she was awfully fond of children, so patient with little sufferers and Tommy Caffrey could never be got to take his castor oil unless it was Cissy Caffrey that held his nose and @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ assailant came to grief and (alas to relate!) the coveted castle too. Needless to say the cries of discomfited Master Tommy drew the attention of the girl friends. -―Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively. At once! And you, +―Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively. At once! And you, Jacky, for shame to throw poor Tommy in the dirty sand. Wait till I catch you for that.

His eyes misty with unshed tears Master Tommy came at her call for @@ -61,18 +61,18 @@ would well up so she kissed away the hurtness and shook her hand at Master Jacky the culprit and said if she was near him she wouldn't be far from him, her eyes dancing in admonition. -―Nasty bold Jacky! she cried.

+―Nasty bold Jacky! she cried.

She put an arm round the little mariner and coaxed winningly: -―What's your name? Butter and cream? -―Tell us who is your sweetheart, spoke Edy Boardman. Is Cissy your +―What's your name? Butter and cream? +―Tell us who is your sweetheart, spoke Edy Boardman. Is Cissy your sweetheart? -―Nao, tearful Tommy said. -―Is Edy Boardman your sweetheart? Cissy queried. -―Nao, Tommy said. -―I know, Edy Boardman said none too amiably with an arch glance from -her shortsighted eyes. I know who is Tommy's sweetheart. Gerty is +―Nao, tearful Tommy said. +―Is Edy Boardman your sweetheart? Cissy queried. +―Nao, Tommy said. +―I know, Edy Boardman said none too amiably with an arch glance from +her shortsighted eyes. I know who is Tommy's sweetheart. Gerty is Tommy's sweetheart. -―Nao, Tommy said on the verge of tears.

+―Nao, Tommy said on the verge of tears.

Cissy's quick motherwit guessed what was amiss and she whispered to Edy Boardman to take him there behind the pushcar where the gentleman couldn't see and to mind he didn't wet his new tan shoes.

@@ -250,24 +250,24 @@ The temper of him! O, he was a man already was little Tommy Caffrey since he was out of pinnies. Edy told him no, no and to be off now with him and she told Cissy Caffrey not to give in to him. -―You're not my sister, naughty Tommy said. It's my ball.

+―You're not my sister, naughty Tommy said. It's my ball.

But Cissy Caffrey told baby Boardman to look up, look up high at her finger and she snatched the ball quickly and threw it along the sand and Tommy after it in full career, having won the day. -―Anything for a quiet life, laughed Ciss.

+―Anything for a quiet life, laughed Ciss.

And she tickled tiny tot's two cheeks to make him forget and played here's the lord mayor, here's his two horses, here's his gingerbread carriage and here he walks in, chinchopper, chinchopper, chinchopper chin. But Edy got as cross as two sticks about him getting his own way like that from everyone always petting him. -―I'd like to give him something, she said, so I would, where I won't say. -―On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.

+―I'd like to give him something, she said, so I would, where I won't say. +―On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.

Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss. -―Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her -nose. Give it to him too on the same place as quick as I'd look at him.

+―Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her +nose. Give it to him too on the same place as quick as I'd look at him.

Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ it and Cissy told her to kick it away and let them fight for it so Gerty drew back her foot but she wished their stupid ball hadn't come rolling down to her and she gave a kick but she missed and Edy and Cissy laughed. -―If you fail try again, Edy Boardman said.

+―If you fail try again, Edy Boardman said.

Gerty smiled assent and bit her lip. A delicate pink crept into her pretty cheek but she was determined to let them see so she just lifted her skirt a little but just enough and took good aim and gave the ball a jolly @@ -385,18 +385,18 @@ she cried behind the hood of the pushcar and Edy asked where was Cissy gone and then Cissy popped up her head and cried ah! and, my word, didn't the little chap enjoy that! And then she told him to say papa. -―Say papa, baby. Say pa pa pa pa pa pa pa.

+―Say papa, baby. Say pa pa pa pa pa pa pa.

And baby did his level best to say it for he was very intelligent for eleven months everyone said and big for his age and the picture of health, a perfect little bunch of love, and he would certainly turn out to be something great, they said. -―Haja ja ja haja.

+―Haja ja ja haja.

Cissy wiped his little mouth with the dribbling bib and wanted him to sit up properly and say pa pa pa but when she undid the strap she cried out, holy saint Denis, that he was possing wet and to double the half blanket the other way under him. Of course his infant majesty was most obstreperous at such toilet formalities and he let everyone know it: -―Habaa baaaahabaaa baaaa.

+―Habaa baaaahabaaa baaaa.

And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ them a good hiding for themselves to keep them in their places, the both of them. And Cissy and Edy shouted after them to come back because they were afraid the tide might come in on them and be drowned. -―Jacky! Tommy!

+―Jacky! Tommy!

Not they! What a great notion they had! So Cissy said it was the very last time she'd ever bring them out. She jumped up and called them and she ran down the slope past him, tossing her hair behind her which had a good @@ -524,8 +524,8 @@ baby. Irritable little gnat she was and always would be and that was why no-one could get on with her poking her nose into what was no concern of hers. And she said to Gerty: -―A penny for your thoughts. -―What? replied Gerty with a smile reinforced by the whitest of teeth. I was +―A penny for your thoughts. +―What? replied Gerty with a smile reinforced by the whitest of teeth. I was only wondering was it late.

Because she wished to goodness they'd take the snottynosed twins and their babby home to the mischief out of that so that was why she just gave a @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ time and Miss Cissy, as glib as you like, said it was half past kissing time, time to kiss again. But Edy wanted to know because they were told to be in early. -―Wait, said Cissy, I'll run ask my uncle Peter over there what's the time by +―Wait, said Cissy, I'll run ask my uncle Peter over there what's the time by his conundrum.

So over she went and when he saw her coming she could see him take his hand out of his pocket, getting nervous, and beginning to play with his @@ -587,8 +587,8 @@ an instant there was in the blue eyes a quick stinging of tears. Their eyes were probing her mercilessly but with a brave effort she sparkled back in sympathy as she glanced at her new conquest for them to see. -―O, responded Gerty, quick as lightning, laughing, and the proud head -flashed up. I can throw my cap at who I like because it's leap year.

+―O, responded Gerty, quick as lightning, laughing, and the proud head +flashed up. I can throw my cap at who I like because it's leap year.

Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with. As for Mr Reggy @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ and Cissy poked him like that out of fun in his wee fat tummy and baby, without as much as by your leave, sent up his compliments to all and sundry on to his brandnew dribbling bib. -―O my! Puddeny pie! protested Ciss. He has his bib destroyed.

+―O my! Puddeny pie! protested Ciss. He has his bib destroyed.

The slight contretemps claimed her attention but in two twos she set that little matter to rights.

Gerty stifled a smothered exclamation and gave a nervous cough and @@ -677,14 +677,14 @@ then he locked the tabernacle door because the benediction was over and Father Conroy handed him his hat to put on and crosscat Edy asked wasn't she coming but Jacky Caffrey called out: -―O, look, Cissy!

+―O, look, Cissy!

And they all looked was it sheet lightning but Tommy saw it too over the trees beside the church, blue and then green and purple. -―It's fireworks, Cissy Caffrey said.

+―It's fireworks, Cissy Caffrey said.

And they all ran down the strand to see over the houses and the church, helterskelter, Edy with the pushcar with baby Boardman in it and Cissy holding Tommy and Jacky by the hand so they wouldn't fall running. -―Come on, Gerty, Cissy called. It's the bazaar fireworks.

+―Come on, Gerty, Cissy called. It's the bazaar fireworks.

But Gerty was adamant. She had no intention of being at their beck and call. If they could run like rossies she could sit so she said she could see from where she was. The eyes that were fastened upon her set her pulses @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ don't tell.

Cissy Caffrey whistled, imitating the boys in the football field to show what a great person she was: and then she cried: -―Gerty! Gerty! We're going. Come on. We can see from farther up.

+―Gerty! Gerty! We're going. Come on. We can see from farther up.

Gerty had an idea, one of love's little ruses. She slipped a hand into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of course without letting him and then slipped it back. Wonder if he's too far to. She