“But I’m all bones,′ Little Fish cried. ‘Quiet! I’m trying to read this cookbook,’ Bid Cat said. Big Cat said, ‘Hmm... boiled...baked.. creamed with almonds... Here it is! Fried fish with pickles, mayonnaise, banana tips, ketchup and mustard. I’m starved.”
“He got me!′ Rhoda screamed. ‘Wait a minute,’ said Stanley. ‘It hurts!’ Rhoda screamed. ‘It’s just a bee sting,’ said Stanley. ‘It hurts!’ Rhoda cried. ‘Let me see it,’ asked Stanley. ‘No!’ said Rhoda.”
“The bakery is not far. Pastry, pastry, pastry, you can’t forget pastry!
When Molly gets there, she hasn’t forgotten the pastry. But now there’s something else. The coin purse. It’s gone! Molly runs back to Grandma as fast as possible. How could this happen? She cries very quietly.”
“She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”
“Hushy, baby, my dolly.
I pray you don’t cry,
And I’ll give you some bread
And some milk by and by;
Or perhaps you like custard,
Or maybe a tart, -
Then to either you’re welcome.
With all my whole heart.”
“Would you look after Dusty for a little while?′ Dusty’s mother asks her father. He is Dusty’s grandpa. ‘All right,’ says Grandpa. ‘I’m just about to make some pancakes.’ ‘I want to help,’ cries Dusty, running into the kitchen. ”
“But Nora didn’t want Mama to go. She didn’t want to say good-bye. Mama bent over Nora with her bright smile, but Nora didn’t smile back. She grabbed her umbrella and pulled hard. ‘Don’t go!’ she cried.”
“Lord Lundy would begin to cry.
A Hint at harmless little jobs
Would shake him with convulsive sobs.
While as for Revelations, these
Would simply bring him to his knees,
And leave him whimpering like a child.
It drove his Colleagues raving wild!”