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She grabbed the two children nearest and shook them until their heads bumped together. Then she drove them all in front of her to the door and down the path to the gate, which she slammed shut behind them. Once outside the gate the children ran, yelling: "Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah! Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah!" Abbie, her hands trembling, her eyes hot, went back into the house.
But she did not get up in the night to put an extra chunk of wood in the stove of the down-stairs bedroom. "Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah! Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah!" Old Chris stopped shoveling snow to shake his fist at the yelling children. "Your Mas'll fix you, if you don't stop that screechin'!" And they answered: "Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris! Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris!"
Every day they yelled the two names as they passed the big house. They yelled them on their way to and from school, and on their way to Giddings's Hill to slide. The older boys took it up, and yelled it when they saw Abbie and Old Chris on Main Street Saturday mornings. And finally they rimed it into a couplet, "Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' Old Chris We saw Chris an' Ab-bie kiss!" It was too much.
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