Page:Cheery and the chum (IA cheerychum00yate).pdf/32

 chum instead, and now everybody calls him 'The Chum,' the same as I do. Oh, he's getting out of the carriage at the gate and I can't step off the step. Chum, oh, Chum, can you hear? It's pink and it's white and it's alive, and I didn't put one single foot off the veranda, and it's mice and it got up my sleeve, and Aunt Beth says there's some little turkeys and—oh, you pulled me off the step your own self; but I don't care, 'cause you're here now and it's all right, and let's go and see the pigs right off, quick! Come on, hurry!"