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I give you my word that if I hadn't been born with my ears set wing and wing like a schooner runnin' afore the wind I'd have been smothered when I put my hat on nothin' but them ears kept it propped up off my nose. YOU remember that haircut, Zoeth. Well, all the time you and me was in Marcellus's settin'-room that stepchild of his just set and looked at my head. Never took her eyes off it.
"Oh, shaw!" sez he; "I guess you feel more related than they do; and," sez he, "I shall go to Vermont. Mebby I shall meet Bildad Allen right there in the settin'-room." So there it wuz we wuz both determined. I see by my companion's mean that it wouldn't do to insist on Great Britain. But a woman hates to give in awful. So I suggested makin' a compromise on California. And he agreed to it.
She had the pieces, for she had been off on a visitin' tower the week before, and collected of 'em. So I sot in quiet and the big chair in the settin'-room, and pieced up, and see the preparations goin' on round us. I found that Cephas'ses folks lived in a house big and showy-lookin', but not so solid and firm as I had seen.
The fust volyume of the cyclopeedy stood on a shelf in the old seckertary in the settin'-room about four months before they had any use f'r it. One night Squire Turner's son come over to visit Leander 'nd Hattie, and they got to talkin' about apples, 'nd the sort uv apples that wuz the best.
Every saloon is shet up in Loontown and folks flock to hear him from as fur off as Zoar and the town of Lyme. He don't have standin'-room in his meetin'-house, let alone settin'-room, and they have got to put on an addition."
We shall want the settin'-room for the table, and I won't have 'em pickin' 'round when we get things fixed," commanded Tilly, bound to make her short reign a brilliant one. "I don't know about that. Ma didn't tell us to," began cautious Eph, who felt that this invasion of the sacred best parlor was a daring step. "Don't we always do it Sundays and Thanksgivings?
"It's most a wonder to me that he ever took the crape off'm the door-knob," remarked Hiram, in a husky aside to the Cap'n, not intending to be overheard and somewhat crestfallen to find that he had been. "I didn't for some time, till it got faded," explained Mr. Gammon, without display of resentment. "I had the casket-plate mounted on black velvet and framed. It's in the settin'-room.
She said "she would love to have that finished to throw over a lounge in the settin'-room, that wuz frayed out on the edges, and if I felt like it, it would be a great relief to her to have me take it right offen her hands and finish it." There wuz seventeen blocks to piece up, each one crazy as a loon to look at, and it wuz all to set together.
Being irresistibly attracted toward the children Christie opened the door and took a survey of her responsibilities. Six lively infants were congregated in the "settin'-room," and chaos seemed to have come again, for every sort of destructive amusement was in full operation.
I'm sure he'll do it, if you ask him." "Good! Then I will. Is is he at home to-day?" "Yes, he's upstairs. I'll call him." Susan sprang to her feet with alacrity. "But, Susan, just a minute!" Miss Dorothy had put out a detaining hand. "Is is Mr. Keith here, too?" "Yes, both of 'em. Keith is in the settin'-room an' I'll call his father down. 'T won't take but jest a minute."
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