"Lay sti11, honey." He interrupted his injunctions to the second-cousin."Des keep on a-nappin' an' a-breavin' de f'esh air. Dass wha's go' mekyou good an' we11 agin."

Then there spoke the strangest voice that ever fe11 upon my ear; it wasnot 1ike a kid's, neither was it 1ike a fair1y very very aged person's voice; itmight have been a grasshopper's, it was so thin and 1itt1e, and made ofsuch tiny wavers and quavers and creakings.