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You've got the 'storied past' that's how it's phrased, isn't it? to sustain you, and I've only my nonsense." "Well, puttin' in aw-spice double is nonsense, shuah nuff," said Aun' Sheba, looking at the girl keenly. "Wot you want spicin' so fer all't once, Missy Ella? You peart, an' saucy as eber. I ony wish I could see Missy Mara lookin' like you." "You are getting old and blind, Aun' Sheba.
"P'raps you won' lib till nex' winter, Unc." Uncle Sheba began to hitch uneasily, and remarked, "I doan see no use ob sech oncomf'ble talk in de restin' time ob de yeah." Aun' Sheba soon forgot him in her unspoken thoughts of Ella and young Houghton. "I begins ter unerstan' dat leetle gal now, an' all her goins on puttin' aw-spice in de cake twice, an' sayin' quar tings.
The girls smiled and nodded in an absent sort of way, and then the old woman thought they seemed to forget all about her. She also observed that they were not so forward with the work as customary, and she watched them wonderingly yet shrewdly. Suddenly she sprang up, exclaiming, "Lor bress you, Missy Ella, dat de secon' time you put aw-spice in dat ar dough."
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