For we are here, your children;
Come into the ship for fear of the weather.”
“She won’t go! she won’t go!” cried Margery.
“Noah’s sending Shem to her again! There! he’s lifted her right in!” Colin exclaimed. “Oh, isn’t she angry!”
The people all round were laughing so much by this time, that the children could only just hear Shem’s words as he carried his mother up the plank into the ark:
“In faith, mother, yet you shall,
Whether you will or not!”
“Welcome, wife, into this boat!” (cried Noah.)
“And have, then, that for thy note!” [trouble]
she returned, boxing her husband’s ears.