booey

Updated: May 4, 2025

But when she opened Timmy's bureau drawers, to find little suits and coats and socks in snowy, exquisite order; when Timmy, trim, sweet, and freshly clad, appeared for breakfast every morning, his fat hand in Belle's, and "Dea' Booey" as he called her figuring prominently in his limited vocabulary, Molly weakened again. "Is he mad this morning?" Belle would ask in a whisper before Jerry appeared.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby