Now it so happened that Douglas, the head dining-room servant, was
also in the kitchen eating his dinner, and, being exceedingly fond of
Tot, he told her to wait a moment, and he would get her something from
the house. So, getting the keys from Aunt Delia, the housekeeper, on
pretence of putting away something, he buttered two or three slices of
light bread, and spread them with jam, and, putting with them some
thin chips of cold ham and several slices of cake, he carried them
back to the kitchen as an addition to Diddie's dinner.
Tot was delighted, and walked very carefully with the plate until she
joined the little group waiting under the window, when she called out,
joyfully,
"Hyear 'tis, Diddie! 'tis des de bes'es kine er dinner!"
And now the trouble was how to get it up to Diddie.
"I tell yer," said Chris; "me 'n Dilsey'll fotch de step-ladder wat
Uncle Douglas washes de winders wid."
No sooner said than done, and in a few moments the step-ladder was
placed against the house, and Dilsey prepared to mount it with the
plate in her hand.
But just at this juncture Diddie decided that she would make good her
escape, and, to the great delight of the children, she climbed out of
the window, and descended the ladder, and soon stood safe among them
on the ground.
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