uncle peep and i a childs novel

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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 H. |EXT morning I awoke long before Peep, and crept out o' bed quietly that I might n't wake him. I went to the window and lifted up the white curtain that hung before it and looked out. I nearly cried out when I saw what was there, it was all so pretty and so pleasant. There were the trees and grass-plot and pathway I had half made out overnight, and there was a bright blue sky above them, in which some white pigeons were flying round and round, and there was a little bird singing on a bush quite close to the house. I could see him quite plainly, perching there, and could hear his loud chirping voice as clearly as possible. I stood there a good while, listening and looking, and found myself thanking God for sending me to a place where I could see and hear all this, before I remembered to kneel down and thank him in the words mother taught me. Then I thought I would get ready dressed and washed before Peep awoke and wanted me to dress and wash him. " Where are we, Bab ?" were his first words as he started up, leaning on his elbow and staring round the room. " We 're where Uncle brought us, Peep, yesterday; don't you recollect ? The coach, the coming into the country, the stopping at a house with a garden, the supper, the hot grog,' as Uncle called it, — don't you remember it all?" " Yes, I think I do, Bab ; but what place do you fancy it is ? " "I s'pose it's his home, Peep." " Do you think he means us to live in it, — to live with him, Bab ? " " Well, I don't know; I suppose he does, Peep. How should you like to live here with him ? " " Oh, I don't mind ; I should n't care to stay here with him by myself, Bab; but if he's going to have you and me both to stay with him, I wouldn't mind. That was a good supper last night, — I was so hungry, Ba... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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