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Aunt Alviry opened wide her bright brown eyes, and still stared in wonder. "My mother's name was Mary Potter, and she was Mr. Potter's niece. So he is my great-uncle." "Bless us and save us!" ejaculated Aunt Alviry, again, shaking her head. "I never heard a word of it never! I 'member Mary Potter, and a sweet, pretty child she was. But Jabez never had no fondness for any of his kin.
But the "blinds" had not been closed on the east side of the house since they were painted the previous spring. Aunt Alviry was the kind of housekeeper who favored the morning sun and it always streamed into the windows of the guest room. When they tried to close the outside shutters of those windows, one had a broken hinge that the painters had said nothing about.
"And after she was so kind to us, too." "Are you sure she did all that out of simple kindness, Helen?" asked the girl from the Red Mill, slowly. "Why! what do you mean?" "Aunt Alviry says one should never look a gift-horse in the mouth," laughed Ruth. "What do you mean?" demanded her chum.
Why didn't Davison send him to the hospital? The doc's allus mixin' us up with waifs an' strays. He's got more cheek than a houn' pup " "Now, Jabez!" cried the little old lady, who had been bending over the stove. "Don't ye make yourself out wuss nor you be. That poor boy ain't doin' no harm to the bed." "Makin' you more work, Alviry."
Dickey said impatiently, "We're all ready, Uncle Jabez. Why don't you fire away, so's to be through by ten o'clock?" "I was a-thinkin' which one I'd best tell him," said Uncle Jabez mildly. "They're all convincin' to a mind that's open to convincement, but I'd like to pick out the one that's most so." "There's the one about Alviry Pratt's grandfather," suggested Mr. Crumlish encouragingly.
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