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I let him go ahead, an' I set in the house with a white apurn tied on me an' thought I was havin' an easy time. I set here and let him rob my neighbors that I ain't never harmed er cheated out of a cent, and soon's he thought he was found out, he left ole Marthy to look after herself. Never so much as fed the hogs or done the milkin' first! Looky here, Seabeck!
She set right down in the kitchen, and your ma rolled her sleeves down and took off her apurn, lookin' kind o' het and worried.
It seems that he considered himself the injured party, and with great ingenuity laid all the blame of the mishap on his elders. 'Nobuddy takes care of me, anyhow, he grumbled. 'If my papa wasn't a mean fing I'd orter to have a black nurse with a white cap and apurn, like Billy Thomas, 'n' then I couldn't git losted so offul easy.
As for Abby herself, Marie gravely informed her that she was an angel. Abby laughed, not ill pleased. "I don't look special like angels," she said; "that is, if the pictures I've seen are correct. Not much wings and curls and white robes about me, Maree. And who ever heard of an angel in a check apurn, I want to know?" But Marie was not to be turned aside.
There was nobody in the office to receive the traveler's application for quarters, but evidence of somebody in the remote parts of the house, whence came the sound of a voice more penetrating than musical, raised in song. With her apurn pinned round her, He took her for a swan, But oh and a-las, it was poor Pol-ly Bawn.
Yes, sir; Chip jest about got a snap shot of 'em." "Well, doggone it! what if he did?" The Old Man turned jealously upon him. "It ain't everyone that kin paint like that, with nothin' but a little kodak picture t' go by. Doggone it! I don't care if Dell had a hull apurn full uh kodak pictures that Chip took it's a rattlin' good piece uh work, all the same."
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