Part 6 (1/2)

Mother often called him ”Herr Baby” for fun The name had taken her fancy when he was a very tiny child, and Lisa had first come to be his nurse For Lisa was _very_ polite; she would not have thought it at all proper to call him ”Baby” all by itself

Herr Baby kissedperson, was a great deal in one

”Ses,” he said, ”him will always aks ly

”He calls everything he likes 'sweet,'” said Fritz ”Mother and the cat and the tiny trunk--they're all sweet'”

But mother smiled, so Baby didn't mind

CHAPTER IV

GOING AWAY

”She did not say to the sun good-night, As she watched hiht, For she knew he had God's time to keep All over the world, and never could sleep”

How, I can't tell, but, after all, _so was ready They left a _few_ things behind that Herr Baby would certainly have taken had he had the settling of it They didn't take the horses, _nor_ the fireplaces, and, of course, as the horses weren't to go, Thomas and Jones had to be left behind too to take care of theood deal And no doubt Thomas and Jones would have been _very_ unhappy if it hadn't been for the nice way Baby spoke to the back soon, and the letters he would send them on their birthdays, and that he would never like any other Thomases and Joneses as much as them It was really quite nice to hear him, and Jones had to turn his head away a little--Baby was afraid it was to hide that he was crying

It was a very busy time, and Baby was the busiest of any There was so much to think of The rabbits too had to be left behind, which was very sad, for one couldn't write letters to _them_ on their birthdays; neither Denny, whom he asked about it, nor Baby himself, could tell when the rabbits' birthdays were, and besides, as Baby said, ”ould be the good of writing the to do was to get the little girl at the lodge to _pro--that was one of the things Herr Baby had to see about, hie, after a great hunt, talking very gravely to the little girl about it

[Illustration: ”Zou will p'oet”--P 61]

”Zou will p'oet,” he was saying, and poor Betsy looked quite frightened, Herr Baby was so very solemn Fritz wanted to make her kiss her mother's old Testarandfather's study when they cas, and to proh she was ready enough to _proht be had up to the court for such like doings, she said, and as neither Fritz nor Baby had any idea what sort of place the court was, though they fancied it was some kind of prison for people who didn't keep their word, they thought it better to leave it

The ”calanies” and the ”Bully” were to go, that was a comfort, and Peepy-Snoozle and Ti was a serious matter, but, on the whole, I think lad he had it to do, as it gave other people a chance of getting _theirs_ done without the little feet pattering along the passage or up the stairs, and the little shrill voice asking as going to be put into _this_ trunk or into _that_ carpet-bag He gave up thinking soafter a while, for he found his own took all his time and attention Mother had found him a box after all Not _the_ box of course--that was left e lass and buy ave hi was as neat as possible, and the box quite packed and ready, the first evening But it was very queer that _every_ day after that Herr Baby found so that Denny and he decided in their earlytalks, that it would be silly to take Or else it caht that his best Bible would be better in the _other_ corner, and the scenty purse on the top of it instead of at one side Any way it always happened that the box had to be unpacked and packed again, and the very last evening there was Herr Baby on his knees before it on the floor, giving the finishi+ng touches, long after he should have been in bed

”And we have to be up so early to-,” said mother, ”my dear little boy, you really _should_ have been fast asleep by this ti,” said Denny, as standing before the fire giving herself little cross shakes every ti fair hair, ca_ me; _Lisa_, do take care,” she added snappishly

”My dear Denny, how very impatient you are!” said her mother ”I don't kno you will bear all the little disco journey if you can't bear to have your hair combed”

On this, Denny, as Fritz would have said, ”shut up” She could not bear it to be thought that she was babyish or ”silly” Her great, great as to be considered quite a big girl You could get her to do anything by telling her it would be babyish not to do it, or that doing it would be like big people, which, of course, showed that she _was_ rather babyish in reality, as sensible children understand that they cannot be like big people in everything, and that they wouldn't be at all nice if they were

Baby always felt sorry for Denny or any of them when mother found fault with thes were too short for hi either up or down very actively--and trotted across to his sister

”Poor Denny,” he said, reaching up to kiss her, ”hi”

”But we'll _have_ to wake early to-morrow,” said Denny, rather crossly still, ”it's no use you beginning good ways about not waking ed”

Baby looked rather sad

”Is your box quite ready now, dear?” said his et you ready for bed as quick as she can, and you and Denny , and wake fresh in the an working and twisting, and at last he ran tointo tears