“Wotcher want, Nosey?”
“Wisht I had two bits.”
“Wot fer? You girls is alius thinkin’ o’ money.” Moses clinked the nickels in his pocket with the air of a Vanderfeller. Betty’s voice became wheedling2.
“Mosey, ef I darn yer socks fer a month would you let me hev’ two bits?”
“Well, I’ll be blowed, gosh! Mar3’d larf to hear you tarlk. You’ll darn my socks, two bits or no two bits, ef Mar says.”
“Now, Mosey, Mar’d be as mad as a wet hen ef she heard you. I want two bits to give to the heathens in Arfrica an’ Mar don’t pay me fer doin’ chores like she pays you. Wisht I was a boy.”
“Well, I’ll see,” replied Moses, but as he plunged4 his hand again into his pocket the cheerful jingle5 of coins stirred his masculine sense of ownership to profounder depths and he frowned and turned on his heel.
For a moment Betty stood in an attitude of dejection, but suddenly her face brightened. The muscles at the corners of her mouth stiffened6, her little pointed7 chin was thrust forward ever so slightly and a look came into her brown eyes which said plainly, “Never you mind, Moses Wopp, I’ll get money and more than two bits for my missionary8 box.”
The expression on the childish countenance9 became even more complex and a close observer could have seen that all was not going to be well with Moses Wopp for the next few days, and that “he’d be sorry.”
As far as general knowledge went, Betty was a complete encyclopedia10 ahead of Moses. That youth’s brains had too many labyrinthine11 passages through which knowledge meandered12 and got lost to ever lay claim to erudition. As for creative ability, Betty imbibed13 ideas at every pore. She took odd moments of her busy days and patching them together made hours of creative joy, a sort of mental Joseph’s coat of rainbow brightness.
Her disappointment over Moses’ parsimony14 led her now to see the urgent necessity of ideas, vital ideas, in fact, ideas that could cause silver to flow to her empty coffers, or in other words her missionary box.
She had made the box herself of small pieces of wood, the lid was nailed on and was provided with a wide inviting-looking slit15 so that coins of large denomination16 could be deposited therein.
Betty had lent Moses fifteen cents of her Christmas money and was receiving two pink and white candy canes17 as her weekly dividend—“truly a lean annuitant.”
The child had been content to extract but fleeting18 moments of sweetness from the confection and as the weeks passed had in the time-honored custom kept the canes shining. Thus accumulated quite a bagful of the tempting19 sweets. These she sold to a haughty20 plutocrat at school for a dime21. This coin of the realm made a pleasing clatter22 in her wooden box; but she reflected, not without some degree of logic23, that ten cents would not go very far in carrying salvation24 to the suffering heathen in Africa.
But ideas came flooding into Betty’s active mind. The desire to fill her box, augmented25 by an even greater desire to let Moses see she didn’t need his shekels, sent electrical energy to her brain.
Once she had seen a moving picture show. It was a marvellous experience to her and had filled her dreams for many nights. She now decided26 to have a little moving picture show of her own.
Her birthday would fall on the last Saturday in September and she was sure to be allowed a party. Each guest could be secretly advised to bring as many carrots as could be conveniently carried to gain entrance to “The greatest movin’ picter gallery in the world, where fairies an’ birds an’ flowers would act an’ tarlk.” The carrots so obtained could be auctioned27 off to the adults present, and Betty felt sure that her mother, seeing her carrots were not a success, would give a high price for the succulent vegetables. A discreet28 hint must also be thrown out that anyone not so fortunate as to be the possessor of a spare carrot could bring silver.
How the missionary box would jingle! How the heathen would sing for joy! While on the Wopp table carrot pudding could become a diurnal29 felicity!
What delightfully30 busy and secret evenings Betty spent in the kitchen with Mrs. Wopp helping31 and expostulating! What dismal32 sighs from Moses who, like the Marchioness, cooled his eye at the keyhole! His sighs penetrated33 through the said keyhole and almost softened34 the obdurate35 Betty; but, alas36, his eavesdropping37 ended only in whetting38 the edge of his curiosity! What yelps39 from Jethro when Moses trod on his foot in headlong flight from the door as his mother approached! What copious40 notes written by Ebenezer Wopp on the whispering and conspiracies41 in the kitchen! And then again what sweeping42 up and burning of cardboard, what hunting through old newspapers and magazines, and what clicking of scissors while a small pair of jaws43 worked simultaneously44! What gorgeous hues45 from the paint-box as Betty mixed her colors and painted innumerable pictures cut from the magazines! Animals, birds, flowers! Gay as color could make them! A veritable garden and zoo turned loose in the kitchen!
Moses regretted a hundred times his refusal to grant Betty’s request for two bits. He had since offered it and had tried to thrust it on her, but injured pride could not thus be appeased46.
At last the long-looked-for day arrived and by two o’clock eight children from the nearest ranches47 had ridden or had been brought by grownups to the Wopp farm, all arrayed in their best bibs and tuckers.
For two days the aromas48 from the kitchen had been such as to dispel49 the gloom from Moses’ countenance, and hope and anticipation50 blended on his youthful visage.
The loft51 in the barn had been swept and garnished52 by Mr. Wopp for Betty’s moving picture show, and thither53, after the preliminary how-d’you-do’s were over, she led her eager audience. Her head was held at the exact angle for ascending54 the ladder to perform the imposing55 duties of moving picture operator, and her foot was on the first rung when she suddenly thought of the collection box for the carrots the children were carrying.
“Moses,” she directed, “git an empty apple-box fer the burnt orfferin’s.”
Moses, who was still in the dark as to the exact character of the entertainment planned, was all eagerness to get preliminaries over.
Pat Bliggins approached the receptacle and deposited a prodigiously57 overgrown, forked, dusty carrot, miraculously58 endowed with powers of emotion, for several wrinkles beneath its green feathery top betrayed extreme agitation59.
Norah Bliggins carried in a little basket several carrots of various sizes and complexions60, all carefully scrubbed as became respectable members of the vegetable family, and shining as sweet and clean as the face of the child. These must have put to shame their forked brother, for that perturbed61 carrot rolled heavily to a corner and hid his grimy visage.
Norah clutched a fat smiling doll in one arm. As the result of a puncture62 from a nail in the fence the doll was bleeding sawdust badly at the knee. However a surgical63 operation with needle and thread would restore health, and Norah stanched64 the wound with her pinafore and prepared to enjoy life to the full. The doll continued to smile gaily65 as though Spartan66 sawdust ran in her veins67.
Peter Stolway carried a large paper bag, and as the carrots fell with resounding68 thuds into the bin, they seemed like inebriated69 question marks, so ungainly and irregular were their shapes. One giddy carrot teetered on the edge as though about to entertain the onlookers70 by an acrobatic performance.
Mannel Rodd’s round face was very solemn as in two chubby72 fists he held out a small box containing a number of short knobby specimens73.
With the gracious air of a duchess, Maria Mifsud dropped into the oat-bin about a peck of the vegetables. They were coiffured and manicured correctly and doubtless considered themselves the elite74 of the carota species.
“Bctcher took orl mornin’ to tittyvate them there carrots,” offered Moses, edging up to Maria with conciliatory glances, and jostling St. Elmo who stood waiting to contribute his donation. The little fellow, whose nose was still “bluggy” from tripping over the saw-horse, dropped his lonely long scraggy carrot on the floor, and in stooping to pick it up struck his head against the handle of a hay-fork and emitted a howl that might have been heard by the heathen themselves in Africa. Betty comforted him with a gum-drop that had lain neglected in her pocket for several weeks, and the cries ceased.
Lila Williams, with her dark curls falling over a pale blue gingham dress, stood watching the proceedings75 with impatience76. She was yearning77 to burst into speech. As soon as St. Elmo’s cries were reduced to intermittent78 gum-droppy sobs79 she turned to Betty, and looking up trustfully into her brown eyes, she launched forth80.
“I wathed theeth carroth mythelf, aint they lovely and red jutht like Motheth hair.” She was quite oblivious81 of the scornful glance bestowed82 on her by that outraged83 shock-headed youth.
Lastly came Moses’ turn to pay the admission fee, and with a shame-faced expression he dropped several silver coins into the box held in Betty’s hand. Her face was a study in feminine triumph as Moses mumbled84, “I aint got no carrots, so here’s my pay to git in ter yer little ole show.”
On reaching the hay-loft all were seated with the least possible degree of discomfort85 on upturned soap-boxes and apple-boxes. Betty covered both windows with blankets and lit a lantern. She had constructed a pasteboard box with a large square opening and now set the lantern in such a way that a picture placed at the opening in the box was illuminated86 so that all could see it clearly. Betty showed her pictures in a well arranged order and her lively imagination supplied the connecting links in the story her lantern “slides” unfolded.
The child was gifted in this most elemental of the arts, and her histrionic ability carried along the interest of her listeners even when the printed matter on the back of the paper interfered87 with the clearness of the picture. Her imagination bolstered88 up the defects of dry facts.
The story had fairly begun when Mrs. Wopp, Nell Gordon and Mrs. Bliggins could be heard coming up the ladder.
“Them carrots do smell sweet.”
It was Mrs. Wopp’s voice. From her remarks one would gather that the rarest perfumes wafted89 on the winds invoked90 by Solomon could never seem so sweet to Woppian nostrils91 as the mingled92 odor of hay and freshly dug carrots.
The ladder fairly creaked under the portly lady, and Miss Gordon felt relieved when the loft was reached in safety. Mrs. Bliggins made no remark, but smiled placidly93. The three stood at the landing and listened to the childish entertainer.
Betty was thoroughly94 engrossed95 in her subject. Her story was entirely96 of birds and flowers and fairies. True, the pictures did not realize in their movements the lightning-like rapidity of “really truly” moving pictures, but they moved as fast as the young eyes that followed them could wish.
“This,” said Betty, showing the picture of a robin97, “is a wormivorious bird.” Henry, the rooster, from his vantage point on a beam crowed lustily, but Betty ignored his remark.
“He will dig up a worm from the ground, an’ while the worm stands on one foot with droopin’ head the robin’ll pick it up an’ carry it orff to feed the baby robins98.”
Here she produced a picture of a nest of young robins, their beaks99 wide open for a tempting morsel100 hanging from the bill of father robin.
“The robin is jist the carinest bird,” she added.
“Not arf as smart as a magpie,” dissented101 Moses, “I’ve saw magpies102 that c’d think up the scheminest things.” Moses was beginning to suffer from a surfeit103 of information and wanted to make a break in the proceedings.
“Better quit tarlkin’, Moses, an’ let the picter show go on so’s we kin1 hev supper, everythin’s laid an’ ready.”
“This peacock,” went on Betty, showing the picture of a bird with plumed105 tail outspread, “is the white peacock of the moon. It lives in the moon, but when fairies want to come to play with li’l girls, they harness the peacock an’ drive down to earth in a silver chariot.”
The pictures that followed were of fairies and sprites irresistible106 to childish minds.
Through the Stygian darkness of the loft loomed107 the figure of Mrs. Wopp, a white apron108 of huge dimensions indicating her presence. She made as though to descend109 the ladder.
“Did you see the fine bin of carrots, Mar?” inquired Betty.
“How much will you pay fer them fer my missionary box?” bargained the child. “Will four shinin’ new quarters do?”
“O, Mar, won’t the heathens’ faces shine, too!” exclaimed Betty, joyously111, as the coins slipped into her box with an opulent clatter.
“Here are more beads113 of wampum, Betty, as I have no garden.” Nell Gordon’s silver donation added appreciably114 to the weight of the collection box.
The ladies, having descended115 the ladder, Betty began hurriedly to show the remaining pictures. Visions of a sumptuous116 repast had flitted before the minds of her listeners and a spirit of restlessness pervaded117 the loft.
It may be that atmospheric118 changes helped to cause the disquiet119, for in the midst of an exciting account of a fairy dancing on a moonbeam, a sudden shower descended on the barn and began to pour in a stream through a hole in the roof, immediately over Moses’ head.
“I’d give my collar butting120 fer a seat on Noer’s ark right now,” said Moses, loudly, interrupting the speaker. Then the roof began to leak in another spot and a stream of water poured down on Betty’s moving picture apparatus121, so that the show had to be discontinued.
“I’m tho thorry, I wanted to hear more about the fairieth.” Lila Williams would have braved the elements to listen to more of Betty’s original stories.
“There aint no such things as fairies anyways.” Peter Stolway always was a doubting Thomas, so Betty tossed her head in scorn as she replied, “There is so, cos I’ve saw them with my very own eyes.”
St. Elmo clapped his tiny hands and asked for “Moah,” while Norah Bliggins, who had been almost petrified122 when she heard the voice of Mrs. Wopp, sat hoping no one would ask her for the golden text. She was devoutly123 thankful that she could get up from her cramped124 position. A wide lath in the upturned box which served as her seat had broken and she had sunk deeper and deeper until her chubby chin and knees were in close proximity125. It required the united efforts of Maria and Betty to extricate126 the unfortunate child. The doll was safe, however, and with fortitude127 worthy128 of emulation129 still smiled although sawdust again trickled130 from her re-opened wound. Henry started up a lusty crowing and Moses began to whistle while Betty uncovered the windows and made other preparations for leaving the loft. Several of her pictures had been spoiled by the rain and the box reduced to a soft pulpy131 mass.
Nero, nonchalantly fiddling132 a trifling133 accompaniment to the burning of Rome, had nothing on Moses, as that blithe-hearted boy whistled a joyous112, albeit134 unmelodious, lilt to the devastation135 of Betty’s picture show box.
The shower was over in a few moments and all prepared to leave the barn for the house.
Moses came to the kitchen door pushing an untemperamental-looking wheel-barrow with a leg in splints, that is, a leg of the vehicle. The barrow was filled with carrots. He was accompanied by Job and Henry. Behind him trooped a merry laughing group of expectant children.
As the door into the dining-room opened to the little guests, St. Elmo Mifsud’s eyes almost darted136 out of his head, for there on the centre of a bountifully-spread table stood an enormous chocolate cake with eleven candles burning on it. The revelation supplied a fitting climax137 for the epochal event of a thrilling picture show.
Betty entered the room last and was rendered almost speechless when she saw the birthday cake. She knew it would have one more candle than the cake for her last birthday had, but, O wonder of wonders! Around the edge was a wreath of morning-glories, made of pink and white icing, and in the heart of each was a silver dew-drop!
“Miss Gordon done it, I know,” whispered Betty, clasping and unclasping her hands, “she’s not a school-teacher at orl, she’s jist a fairy growed up, an’ Mar’s a fairy godmother!”
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