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He covered his face and sat in a trance of horror and remorse. His mother came to call him to dinner, and as he looked up in answer to her call, she started back with a scream at sight of his unearthly face. "Lor' a-massy, George Washington! what ever has come to you?" "Pack up my clean socks and shirts, mother," he said. "I'm going back to England by the first steamer." Late next evening Mr.
"Have you made up your mind what to call her?" she asked. "Mummer, or mother?" "I shall call her whatever I please," replied Maria; "it is nobody's business." Then she arose and went out of the room, with an absurd little strut. "Lord a-massy!" observed Mrs. Jonas White, after she had gone. "I guess Ida Slome will have her hands full with that young one," observed Lillian.
"Lord a-massy, don't ye worry," old Jonas would say, with a sly grin; "ye know well enough that there won't a blamed one of the things take root without no sun an' manure; might as well humor her long as she's sot on 't." Then old Jonas would wink slowly with a wink of ineffable humor. There was no mistaking the fact that old Jonas was getting a deal of solid enjoyment out of the situation.
The breathless bits about the moments when death was near; the humorous bits about patching the tent with the tails of their shirts when an overturned lamp burnt a hole in the canvas this was all I was conscious of until I was startled by the sound of a sepulchral voice, groaning out "Oh Lord a-massy me!" and by the sight of a Glengarry cap over the top of the fuchsia hedge.
"Oh, Snoop, Snoop!" cried Freddie. "He's in the library in the box! Dinah, get him quick, get him!" and Dinah ran back after the little kitten. "Here you is, Freddie!" she gasped, out of breath from hurrying. "You don't go and forget poor Snoopy!" and she climbed in beside Sam. Then they started. "Oh, my lan' a-massy!" yelled Dinah presently in distress.
"He's eaten up the American flag!" replied Nyoda in an outraged tone. "This is positively the last straw. I put up with several hundred dollars' worth of damage about the place, but this is too much. Do you realize what he's done? He's eaten up the American flag!" "Why-e-e-e-e-e!" exclaimed Hercules, and then, "Lord a-massy!
Lord a-massy, if it ain't you! Come to see the big monkey, like all the rest of us? Ain't much of a sight yit. It was Mrs. Camp, and she seemed quite alone. She put out her hand with perfect faith in my pleasure at the meeting; and when I took it and spoke her name, I felt a soft touch at my elbow. I had told the ladies of my acquaintance with Mrs.
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