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Gregory, you ain't no idee how a feller can be handicapped by a timid wife an' a lot o' fool childern. I'm almost afeard to turn 'round fer fear they'll be skeered to death fer my safety." "You cut yourself with a razor once when ma told you not to try to shave the back of your neck by yourself," said one of the girls. "She wanted you to let Mr.
I ust to eat my dinner like it was sawdust, for fear I'd get a little comfort out of it, while somebody somewheres was starvin' little childern, like enough. That was al'ays the hardest part of it little childern.
"I wish Larry had a place in a house that was overrun with childern. Seems if I hate to tell her how it is." But the pleasant-faced smartly clad woman smiled at her as no prospective tenant had ever smiled and asked sweetly: "Is this Mrs. Donovan?" Before Kate Donovan could admit it the boyish little figure ran to her. "My Aunt Kate! I know it is. It's my Aunt Kate!"
"Now, look here, Tillie," said Aunty Em, at the breakfast-table, "you worked hard this week, and this after you're restin' leastways, unless you WANT to go home and take care of all them litter of childern. If you don't want to go, you just stay and I'll take the blame! I'll say I needed you." "Let Jake Getz come 'round HERE tryin' to bully you, Tillie," exclaimed Mr.
She became so excited she acted the part of her mistress admirably in the half-bent, whining, crying, and wringing of hands, as she followed them to the door. "How did you feel about that silver plate that was bought with the price of your three children? Didn't you think you ought to have it?" "O'no, I couldn't touch it. It was part o' my poor dear childern; but I didn't want mistess to keep it.
"Well, if Jake Getz saw you standin' up for his childern against his lickin' 'em or makin' 'em work hard; or if you wanted to make 'em take time to learn their books at home when he wants 'em to work or some such he'd get awful down on you. And Nathaniel Puntz he 's just the conTRARY he wants his n' spoiled he's got but the one."
This proved to be the fact, as Scattergood learned from no less an authority than Mr. Spackles himself. "Felt like strikin' him right there 'n' then," said Mr. Spackles, heatedly, "but I seen 'twouldn't do to abuse one of Ellen's childern." "Um!... Was you and Grandmother Penny figgerin' on hitchin' up?" Scattergood asked. "I put the question," said Mr.
Dat's his bestest rubber plant what he tol' me to take partic'lar care of. What will you lil' w'ite childern be up to next, I'm a-wondering?" "Why, Mun Bun!" murmured Russ. "Why, Margy Bunker!" exclaimed Rose. He did not consider the mischief he had done. He was as curious as Vi could possibly have been about an entirely different thing.
"Now, my dear, you jest go and have a good frolic with them childern, I'm a goin' to git dinner, and you a goin' to play; so we don't want to see no more of you till the bell rings," said Mrs. Wilkins pinning up her gown, and "shooing" her brood out of the room, which they entirely filled. Catching up her hat Christie obeyed, feeling as much like a child as any of the excited six.
"You are one of the best and happiest women I know." "Well, I guess I ain't the best by a long sight, but I may be the happiest. An' I got cause to be: four of the smartest childern that ever lived, a nice house, fair to middlin' health when I ain't got the rheumatiz, and folks always goin' clean out of the way to be good to one! Ain't that 'nough to make a person happy?
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