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"Say," she startled the lovers by her remark, "if that ain't the prettiest piece I ever heard!" "Think so?" said Martin kindly. "I agree with you." "Yes, it sounds nice but the meanin' is what abody likes." The hired girl went back to her place in the other room. But Amanda turned to the man beside her and said, "Romance in the heart of Millie! Who would guess it?"
And as long as blue and brown and colors Amanda likes don't cost more than those she don't want I can't see why she shouldn't have what she wants." "Well, abody wonders what kind o' children plain people expect to raise nowadays with such caterin' to their vanity." Mrs. Reist bit her lips and refrained from answering.
Phœbe laughed loud as she saw the smile on the face of her teacher, but next moment she sobered under the chiding of Aunt Maria. "Phœbe, now you keep quiet! Abody don't laugh and act so on a graveyard!" "Ugh," the child said a moment later, "Miss Lee, just read this one. It always gives me shivers when I read it still.
She ran to a small window and threw it wide open so that the October sunshine could stream in and make the place less ghostly. "Now it's fine up here," she cried. "And I dare I may talk to myself all I want. Aunt Maria says it's simple to talk to yourself, but goodness, when abody has no other boys or girls to talk to half the time like I don't, what else can abody do but talk to your own self?
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer." "Ach, I guess he was no different from others, only he's dead so abody shouldn't talk about him." Amanda sighed and turned to her mother. "Mother, I'm going up to put on an old dress and when Phil comes we're going over to the woods for arbutus." "All right." But the aunt did not consider it all right. "Why don't you help cut carpet rags?" she asked.
I won't get out of this room till I'm carried out, I know. My goodness, abody thinks back over a lot o' things when you get right sick once! I made a will, Millie, and a pretty good one," the sick woman laughed as if in enjoyment of a pleasant secret. Her nurse attributed the laughter to delirium.
"Now look at us," he began, then the funny spectacle of wet clothes sent each laughing. "Gee," he said, "won't we get Sam Hill from Mom?" "What's Sam Hill?" she asked. "And where do you learn such awful slang? Abody can hardly understand you half the time. Mom says you should stop it." "Yea, that reminds me, Manda, what I come for. Mom said you're to come in and get your dresses tried on.
What's he hangin' round here for all the time every time he gets home from school when abody can easy see you don't like him to come?" "Oh, I don't know. He just drops in. I guess because we were youngsters together." "Um, mebbe," grunted Millie wisely to herself as Amanda went to see her visitor. "I ain't blind and neither did I come in the world yesterday.
"What for need you be so stiff-headed?" asked Millie sadly. "It'll spite us all if they put you out and you go off somewheres to teach. Ach, abody wonders sometimes why some people got to be so mean in this world." "It is always that way," said Mrs. Reist gently. "There are weeds everywhere, even in this Garden Spot. Why, I found a stalk of deadly nightshade in my rose-bed last summer."
Amanda wondered what he meant, but her mother and Millie laughed. "Women's women," he added knowingly. "Some wakes up sooner than others, that's all! Millie, when you goin' to get you a man? You're gettin' along now just about my age, so I know abody that cooks like you do " "Amos, you just keep quiet! I ain't lookin' for a man.
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