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Updated: May 18, 2025
"I found out as much as I could regarding the present circumstances of John Brierly. He is " "What does he look like?" interrupted Drusilla. "I ain't seen him for mor'n forty years. Is he old lookin'? Is he sick?" The young man smiled at her impatience. "I should call him a singularly well preserved man for his years." "That sounds as if he was apple-sass, or somethin' to eat.
Abe thoughtfully drummed his hand on the board, and as Angy brought the tea-pot and sat down opposite him, he recalled: "We had bread an' tea an' apple-sass the day we set up housekeeping dew yew remember, Angy?"
"What on airth does she want with such a sight of 'em," inquired Dan Dennison. "Live on pies and apple-sass till next summer," suggested Mimy Lawson. "That's the stuff for my money!" replied her brother; "taters and apple-sass is my sass in the winter." "It's good those is easy got," said his sister Mary; "the sass is the most of the dinner to Bob, most commonly."
"An' I burned the apple-sass," she supplemented, whereupon Abe chuckled, and Angy went on with a thrill of genuine gladness over the fact that he remembered the details of that long-ago honeymoon as well as she: "Yew don't mind havin' no butter to-night, dew yer, Father?" He recalled how he had said to her at that first simple home meal: "Yew don't mind bein' poor with me, dew yer, Angy?"
"Are they fixing for more apple-sass down-stairs?" Mr. Dennison went on rather drily. "No hush!" said Juniper Hitchcock "sassages!" "Humph!" said Dan, as he speared up an apple out of the basket on the point of his knife "ain't that something like what you can call killing two" "Just that, exactly," said Jenny Hitchcock, as Dan broke off short, and the mistress of the house walked in.
Mr. Lee called for me after the lesson. I told him I could find the way back to the boarding-house alone, but he said he'd consider it a pleasure and privilege to call for me. He has the nicest manners! He never needs to flounder around for the right thing to say, it just slips from his tongue like butter. Aunt Maria always says, "look out for them smooth apple-sass talkers," but I'm sure Mr.
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