“See me! See me!” cried Blossom. “I’m walkin’, Judy, don’t you see? I came a-walkin’ down to meet you! It’s a s’prise!”
Someone caught up the little figure and came leaping down to Judith with great strides of triumph.
“That’s enough to s’prise her—mustn’t do much of it at a time yet,” Jemmy Three said gayly. “You’ve got to begin easy. Yes!” in answer to Judy’s speechless pleading, “yes, sir, she’s goin’ to be a reg’lar walker, now, ain’t you, Blossom? Yes, sir; no more bein’ toted—she’s folks!”
“Yes, yes, yes!” trilled Blossom exultantly. “They pulled my legs out an’ put ’em in over, where they b’long. Only I’ve got to go easy till I’m uncasted.”
“Till you’re—what? But never mind what! You’re my Blossom, and you’re home again, and you’re walking!” Judith cried in her exceeding great joy. But by and by Jemmy Three explained.
“They put her legs in kind o’ casts, you know, that she cant’t have taken off yet awhile, but when they do take ’em off—”
“Then I’ll run!” Blossom interrupted, radiantly.
“Oh, oh—and to think we were going to surprise mother, and you surprised me!” breathed Judy. “But I thought—we were going across the ocean—”
“You needn’t have,” Jemmy said. “That great doctor’s over there, but there’s plenty o’ second-great ones over here that make children walk his way. That’s what I went to find out. I thought maybe—”
“You went to find out—you thought—oh, Jemmy, what a boy you are!”