Mr. Penniloe rang the bell, and begged Mrs. Muggridge to be good enough to send Miss Zippy to him.
The roof garden girl-show that we went to afterwards was a zippy performance, after it's kind.
She'd already yanked out three or four hatpins and has pried off the zippy lid.
Then all of a sudden a chatter of goodbys comes from the upper hall, a maid trots down and hands me a suitcase, and then appears this languishin' vision in the zippy French lid and the draped silk wrap.
At that there comes a giggle from under the zippy lid.
With myzippy dooden, dooden dooden, dooden dooden dey, With my zippy dooden, dooden dooden, dooden dooden dey.
Also when it comes to light and frivolous chat Mirabelle is right there with the zippy patter.
And say, when she shows up in that zippy sport suit, just in from a long tramp across country, she looks some classy.
Course, it's me with my heels together doin' the zippy salute.
She's gone the limit--khaki riding pants, leather leggins and a zippycloth cap cut on the overseas pattern.
He looks me over sort of doubtful, stroking the zippy little chin tuft as he does it, but he ends by shruggin' his shoulders resigned.
One day, Isabella's sister Ellen gaveZippy a nice, large, fresh egg.
Zippy was inside his house, pretending to take a nap.
Illustration] Zippy was not always so wicked as this, even after he had to be chained up; but he was very mischievous.
They went out there and found Zippy on a high shelf where the blacking-brushes were kept.
I was still chewin' over that zippy roast Aunty had handed me.
And say, when I pipes the fairy in the half-masted skirt and the zippy Balkan bonnet, I begins bracin' myself for what I could see comin'.
So here the other day, only a couple of weeks since we made our trip, I'm some surprised to see who it is givin' me the zippy salute on the station platform out home.
