`` So I did , and gave you Little Bolivar on yours . Now I 'll have Alsace and Lorraine , 1870 . There are seven of them , so hold still and see how you like it , '' returned Jack , picking the large , pale stamps one by one from Jill 's forehead , which they crossed like a band . She bore it without flinching , saying to herself with a secret smile , as she glanced at the hot fire , which scorched her if she kept near enough to Jack to help him , `` This really is being like a missionary , with a tattooed savage to look after . I have to suffer a little , as the good folks did who got speared and roasted sometimes ; but I wo n't complain a bit , though my forehead smarts , my arms are tired , and one cheek is as red as fire . '' `` The Roman States make a handsome page , do n't they ? '' asked Jack , little dreaming of the part he was playing in Jill 's mind . `` Oh , I say , is n't Corea a beauty ? I 'm ever so proud of that ; '' and he gazed fondly on a big blue stamp , the sole ornament of one page . `` I do n't see why the Cape of Good Hope has pyramids . They ought to go in Egypt . The Sandwich Islands are all right , with heads of the black kings and queens on them , '' said Jill , feeling that they were very appropriate to her private play . `` Turkey has crescents , Australia swans , and Spain women 's heads , with black bars across them . Frank says it is because they keep women shut up so ; but that was only his fun . I 'd rather have a good , honest green United States , with Washington on it , or a blue one-center with old Franklin , than all their eagles and lions and kings and queens put together , '' added the democratic boy , with a disrespectful slap on a crowned head as he settled Heligoland in its place . `` Why does Austria have Mercury on the stamp , I wonder ? Do they wear helmets like that ? '' asked Jill , with the brush-handle in her mouth as she cut a fresh batch of flaps . `` May be he was postman to the gods , so he is put on stamps now . The Prussians wear helmets , but they have spikes like the old Roman fellows .
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