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IO
IO JOHNNY BLOSSOM
everything. Nils, their son, was more to look
after than all the rest put together, for he was
the worst scalawag to be found along the whole
coast.
John kept on eating and talking. "Nils is a
bad boy, Mother. When he talks to his mother,
he keeps the side of his face toward her perfectly
sober; but he makes faces with the side toward
us. It is awfully funny and we laugh; and Mrs.
Lind thinks we are laughing at her, and then she
scolds, and oh! her scolding is so funny!"
Shortly after dinner Johnny Blossom was out
in the woodshed whittling a boat. How
delightful and how queer that he should be "a credit
to the school"! He would be awfully industrious
now every single day; go over every lesson six
times, at least.
This boat that he was making was going to be
a fine one — Johnny Blossom held it out and
peered sharply at it, first lengthwise, then
side-wise — the finest boat any one had ever
whittled. Every one who saw it would say, "Who
made that beautiful, graceful boat?" Well,
here was the boy who could do it!
One of these days he must carve out a big ship
about half a yard long and make it an exact
copy of a real ship.
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