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A family may have lived on for years with no break in the home circle, and every thing connected with them have moved on with the regularity of clockwork, when some sudden and unlooked-for event will all at once change the very atmosphere of their home. Owing to her advanced age, Grandma Adams' death could hardly be supposed to have been unlooked for, yet so it was.
"I shan't let it go in my throat. I'll bite my teeth togedder tight." "Alice," said her grandmother, "is that the proper way to speak to me?" The child's face cleared in a moment. "I wasn't a-speakin' to you, grandma," said she, sweetly; "I was a talkin' to the dust-pan." "O, Dotty Parlin!" cried Prudy, much distressed. "Nobody ever talked to the dust-pan, in all the days of their lives!
"Your friend seems a nice-appearing young man," said Grandma Orde. "Wouldn't he stay to dinner?" "I asked him," replied Orde, "but he couldn't. He and I have a scheme for making our everlasting fortunes." "Who is he?" asked grandma. Orde dropped his napkin into his lap with a comical chuckle of dismay. "Blest if I have the slightest idea, mother," he said. "Newmark joined us on the drive.
But, on the whole, she was improving, and Uncle Steve sometimes said that he believed she would live to grow up without tumbling off of something and breaking her neck, after all. Grandma Sherwood found it far easier to forgive Marjorie's unintentional mischief than her forgetting of explicit commands. One command in particular had caused trouble all summer.
"You did right to tell me this, my child," said she; "but I wish you to say nothing about it to any one else: will you remember?" "Yes'm," replied Dotty, trying to read her grandmother's face, and feeling a little alarmed by its solemnity. "What you going to do, grandma? Not put Jennie in the lockup are you? 'Cause if you do O, don't you!
I d'no, by cripes, why it is a feller can always think uh lies and joshes by the dozens, and put 'em over O. K. when there ain't nothing to be made out of it except hard feelin's; and then when a deal like this here sheep deal comes up, he's got about as many idees, by cripes, as that there line-back calf over there. Honest to grandma, Andy makes me feel kinda faint.
'Yes, in Hillsborough, said Hope, 'and there were doctors and lawyers and college students and I don't know who all in the match. 'Most reemarkable! said David Brower. 'Treemenjious! exclaimed Uncle Eb. 'I heard about it over at the mills t'day, said Tip Taylor. 'Merd Dieu! exclaimed Grandma Bisnette, crossing herself. Elizabeth Brower was unable to stem this tide of enthusiasm.
"I slid just like going downhill." "That's why she disappeared so suddenly," went on Grandma Ford. "The tin, being smooth, didn't hurt her a bit, as she slid. And it is very dark in there. But after this I'll keep the cover on, so no more of my little Bunkers will get into trouble."
Then she at once relapsed into her own. "My daughter says that she is convinced that the young man is worthy, though he is not socially quite what she might desire, and she does not feel it right to part them if they have a true affection for each other," said Grandma Cobb.
All that day and the next the six little Bunkers played around Great Hedge, having fun in the snow. Sometimes Mother and Grandma came out to watch them. Grandpa Ford and Daddy Bunker went to town in a cutter, with the merry jingling bells on the horse, and Daddy went home for a week on business.
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