Not that there was much of the Baby , speaking of it as a thing of weight and measure , but there was a vast deal to do about and about it , and it all had to be done by easy stages . For instance , when the Baby was got , by hook and by crook , to a certain point of dressing , and you might have rationally supposed that another touch or two would finish him off , and turn him out a tiptop Baby challenging the world , he was unexpectedly extinguished in a flannel cap , and hustled off to bed ; where he simmered -LRB- so to speak -RRB- between two blankets for the best part of an hour . From this state of inaction he was then recalled , shining very much and roaring violently , to partake of -- well ? I would rather say , if you 'll permit me to speak generally -- of a slight repast . After which he went to sleep again . Mrs. Peerybingle took advantage of this interval , to make herself as smart in a small way as ever you saw anybody in all your life ; and , during the same short truce , Miss Slowboy insinuated herself into a spencer of a fashion so surprising and ingenious , that it had no connection with herself , or anything else in the universe , but was a shrunken , dog 's - eared , independent fact , pursuing its lonely course without the least regard to anybody . By this time , the Baby , being all alive again , was invested , by the united efforts of Mrs. Peerybingle and Miss Slowboy , with a cream-coloured mantle for its body , and a sort of nankeen raised pie for its head ; and so , in course of time , they all three got down to the door , where the old horse had already taken more than the full value of his day 's toll out of the Turnpike Trust , by tearing up the road with his impatient autographs ; and whence Boxer might be dimly seen in the remote perspective , standing looking back , and tempting him to come on without orders . As to a chair , or anything of that kind for helping Mrs. Peerybingle into the cart , you know very little of John , if you think that was necessary . Before you could have seen him lift her from the ground , there she was in her place , fresh and rosy , saying , `` John ! How can you ? Think of Tilly ! '' If I might be allowed to mention a young lady 's legs on any terms , I would observe of Miss Slowboy 's that there was a fatality about them which rendered them singularly liable to be grazed ; and that she never effected the smallest ascent or descent without recording the circumstance upon them with a notch , as Robinson Crusoe marked the days upon his wooden calendar . But , as this might be considered ungenteel , I 'll think of it . `` John ! You 've got the basket with the Veal and Ham Pie and things , and the bottles of Beer ? '' said Dot . `` If you have n't you must turn round again this very minute . '' `` You 're a nice little article , '' returned the Carrier , `` to be talking about turning round , after keeping me a full quarter of an hour behind my time . '' `` I am sorry for it , John , '' said Dot in a great bustle , `` but I really could not think of going to Bertha 's -- I would not do it , John , on any account -- without the Veal and Ham Pie and things , and the bottles of Beer . Way ! ''
This monosyllable was addressed XXXXX the horse , who did n't mind it at all .
For If about after as between by to upon without