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Updated: May 18, 2025
The mother remarked, with forced playfulness, as she watched her, "Elsie's a g-r-e-a-t girl, I tell you. You can't fool her." As the trimmer returned the boxes to the shelves, I overheard her mutter, "Oh, yes, Elsie is a g-r-e-a-t girl, a perfect little jewel, so well-behaved. Her polite manners show her careful home training; quite a reflection on her dear mamma."
"G-r-e-a-t great," her mother answered, with a smile "B-o-o-k book. Oh, give me some harder words." "Laughter." "L-a-u-g-h-t-e-r laughter." "Is that correct?" Margolis turned to me, all beaming. "I wish I could do as much. And nobody has taught her, either. She has learned it all by herself. Little Lucy is the only teacher she ever had. But she will soon be ahead of her. Won't she, Lucy?"
And then he remembered seeing Bud sitting in the old cart driving Ben Butler home and telling everybody what they now knew: "Great hoss G-r-e-a-t hoss!" And the old horse shuffled and crow-hopped along, and Jack followed the Bishop carrying the gold. And then such a funny thing: Ben Butler, frightened at a mule braying in his ear, ran away and threw Bud out!
And when he wished to bring Ellen Culpepper to time he would begin in a low terrorful voice, "And I saw the man take a g-r-e-a-t l-o-n-g knife d-r-i-p-p-i-n-g with r-e-d-b-l-o-o-d out of his t-e-e-t-h and go slish, k-slish," but he never got farther than this, for the girl would begin shaking, and if they were alone, would run to him and grab him and put her hand to his mouth to make him stop.
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