"Little Old
Lollypop
Lived in a
Stuffy Shop,
Watching the
Crickets Hop-pop,
Hop-pop."
So Baby loved it all better even than Cosy Cottage.
And when, she and Phyllis had arranged the things round the wall, she sat down and wrote to the Commander-in-Chief,
DEAR JACKY,—Will you come and have tea with me? Your loving,—BABY,
to show she forgave him quite and quite.
But St Jack wrote back, very short and simple,
No. I wun't,
to show he wouldn't be forgiven: for he was a very straight little fellow when it suited him.
And St Jack wouldn't go, for he knew very well that if he did he would repent, because of Baby; and he preferred bad.
And besides he was kept on duty all day at the Castle just now, handing tea-cakes to the visitors, which he was rather good at; for St Jack's manners, when he liked, were very remarkable.