A Christmas Child Author:Molesworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Chapter Iii. WISHES AND FEARS. textit{Children. " Here are the nails, and may we help ? textit{Jessie. You shall if I should want help. textit{Children. Will you want it then ? Please ... more »want it—we like helping." There was no one in the nursery, fortunately for Ted's plans. [^fortunately rather, we should perhaps say, for if nurse had been there, she would have asked for what he wanted the little bottle which had held the cod-liver oil, that he had lately left off taking, but of which a few drops still remained. Ted climbed on to a chair and reached the shelf where it stood, and in two minutes he was off again, bottle in hand, in triumph. He found Cheviott lying still, where he had left him; he looked up and yawned as Ted appeared, and then growled with an air of satisfaction. It was sometimes a little difficult for Chevie to decide exactly how textit{much care he was to take of Ted. After all, a little two-legged boythat could talk was not textit{quite the same as a lamb, or even a sheep. He could not run round him barking, to prevent his trotting where he wished—there were plainly some things Ted had to do with and understood which Chevie's dog-experience did not reach to. So Cheviott lay there and blinked his honest eyes in the sunshine, and stared at Ted and wondered what he was after now! For Ted was in a very tip-top state of delight! He sat down cross-legged on the grass, drew the delicious big shears to him— they were heavy for him even to pull—and uncorking the bottle of " fissy" oil, began operations. " Zem textit{is sticked fast, to be score," he said to himself, adopting David's favourite expression, as he tugged and tugged in vain. " If thoo could hold one side and Ted the other, they would soon come loosened," he observed to Cheviott. But Cheviott only growled faintly and blinked ...« less