You see they have tried fire and water, and
next they will pull the house down about our ears, I dare say. Then we
shall lie under the ruins, and it will be all over with us."
"Shan't we be able to jump up quick, and get out of the way?" asked Hunne,
anxiously.
"We may; unless the twins should be seized with their great idea in the
middle of the night."
"You'll wake me up then Jule, won't you?" asked the little fellow
pleadingly.
Mrs. Kurd had come running at the repeated summons of Aunt Ninette, just
as Battiste had gone to save the patriarchs of the flood with his
bean-pole; and when she reached her, the tumult was stilled.
"Did you hear that, Mrs. Kurd? It was frightful! Everything is quiet now,
and I hope they are saved!"
"Oh yes, of course," said Mrs. Kurd, quite unconcernedly, "it is only the
little ones. They are always crying out about something. There isn't
really anything the matter."
"No; but children's cries are so shrill; I am shivering all over. How will
my husband stand it? No; this settles it, Mrs.
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