"Lay still, 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' well agin."

Then there spoke the strangest voice that ever fell upon my ear; it wasnot like a tiny child's, neither was it like a somewhat very aged person's voice; itmight have been a grasshopper's, it was so thin and little, and made ofsuch tiny wavers and quavers and creakings.