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Updated: June 9, 2025
Betty says the girls all like her better than they do the Bucknors, but you know how it is with the folks from Buck Hill they just naturally take the lead in social matters and nobody ever has crossed them. I wish I had a house of my own. I tell you I'd give that Judy Buck a comin' out party that would make your hair curl," declared the Colonel.
Their formality in greeting Judith might easily have been accounted for by the fact that Big Josh Bucknor had kept the ball rolling in regard to old Dick Buck's kinship with the family. From the moment Miss Ann Peyton had made the statement that the Bucks and Bucknors were originally the same people, Big Josh had been spreading the news.
He never lived in it after Grandfather Knight died, so my mother tells me, but we always have called it his house. It still has his furniture in it, but nobody stays there." "I hearn my Miss Ann a talkin' bout yo' fambly not so long ago. She say the Bucks an' Bucknors were one an' the same in days gone by but one er yo' forebears done mislaid the tail en' of his name.
"Jeff, how can you?" cried Mildred. "She's a very common person who happens to be named Buck and now they are trumping up some foolish old tale that they were Bucknors 'way back yonder in the middle ages and that they are related to us. It is too ridiculous for words." "Our kin all the same," teased Jeff, going on with his game. "Right fetching skirt!" said Tom.
With a businesslike "Good-morning," she proceeded to open up her sample case and begin her salesman's patter: "I have here " She was determined that the call should be purely a commercial one and that the Bucknors could none of them think for a moment that she sought or even desired any social dealings with them. "Perhaps you had better take your wares to the back door.
I reckon she would be glad an' proud ter be cousins ter you, Miss Ann." Billy had never told his mistress of his visit to Judith. That young person had impressed him as being not at all proud of being of the same blood as the Bucknors, or in the least desirous of claiming the relationship. "But she wa'n't speakin' er my Miss Ann," he said to himself.
The Bucknors live at Buck Hill and are about the swellest folk in Kentucky. The Bucks live in a little place this side of Buck Hill. There's nobody left but this Judy gal and her mother. I reckon their place would have gone for debt if it hadn't so happened that the trolley line from Louisville cut through it and they sold the right of way for enough to lift the mortgage.
"I guess he wouldn't claim relationship with you if he did know. Those Bucknors of Buck Hill are a proud-stomached lot. They've been dusting me on the pike ever since I was a little girl dusting me and never even seeing me." "Did you ever speak to them?" "Of course not. I was never one to put myself forward." "Well, why should they speak to you any more than you speak to them?
He says they have plenty of pull left in them and my private opinion is that Cousin Ann's old coach will not stand another trip." "See here," spoke Little Josh, who was the practical member of the family, "this is all very well, but we Bucknors can't sit back and let this little Judy Buck support our old cousin.
They did not have the making of me and I am what I am regardless of them. I know perfectly well that I am descended from the same original Bucknors but I'm glad my ancestor mislaid part of the name and I wouldn't have the last syllable back for anything in the world." "Yassum!" gasped Billy.
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