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Gran'ma Mullins is mad, too, 'cause she was put in the personals an' Elijah went an' called her the 'Nestor of the crick, without never so much as askin' by her leave. She says she ain't never done nothin' with the crick, an' if she ever nested anywhere it was in her own owned an' mortgaged house.
Honest to gran'ma, I've got to go and help the bunch lick the stuffen' outa them nesters, Doctor Dell." The Little Doctor looked at him strangely, hugged him tight and let him go. Chip would be with them, and he would bring the Kid home safely, and the limitations of dooryard play no longer sufficed; her fledgling had found what his wings were for, and the nest was too little, now.
However, Terry accepted her sentence in silence. She never thought of disobeying a direct command like this; for it was true, as she had often said, that she never did a thing which she believed at the time to be wrong. It would be clearly wrong to refuse to do her practising when Nurse and Gran'ma had decreed that it was to be done, and so she recognized that the hated ordeal must be faced.
Ah, more candy?" as a small hand was held out appealingly toward him. "Guess we'll have another round before I get going right." He doled out more of the sticky stuff, and then propped his face upon his hands and proceeded. "Wal, as I was goin' to say, that little squaw lived away there by the hills in a snug tepee with her gran'ma.
An' coaxin'! ''Aven't yer brought me no sweeties, Gran'ma? 'No, my dear, says I. 'But if you was to look, Gran'ma in both your pockets, Gran'ma iv you was to let me look? It's a sharp un Isabella, she don't 'old wi' sweet-stuff, she says, sich a pack o' nonsense. She'd stuff herself sick when she wor 'is age. Why shouldn't ee be happy, same as her?
"You said you was afraid," he answered. "I'll go acrost with you." "All right," said Isabel, with her kindest laugh, not the teasing one that made him hate her while he thought how bright and dear she was. "Come take gran'ma acrost the orchard. Don't let anything happen to her." They stepped over the wall and made their way along the little path by the grape arbor.
But you was already gone for, then. His gran'ma she got considerable fretted because he's broke off the long han' o' the clock; but I don't see much out o' the way about that. Ef a person thess remembers thet the long han' is the short han' why, 't ain't no trouble. An' she does make 'im so contented an' happy! Thess look at his face, now!
She drank some tea as I made strong on purpose, an' shook her head hard an' went home, an' God help Hiram if he hummed last night; an' as for Gran'ma Mullins, Lucy said if she come stealin' in to feel if Hiram was breathin' reg'lar, she was going to get slapped for a mosquito in a way as she'd long remember." "Dear me " commented Mrs. Lathrop. "Well, I did n't blame her," said Miss Clegg.
You have a kind nurse and a comfortable home, and everything to satisfy you. Soon you will be going to school, and I hope you will try to grow up a credit to us. 'Yes, gran'ma. 'Can't you say anything but "yes"? Mrs. Egerton's tone was a little impatient. 'I don't know nothing but "yes" to speak, faltered Bobby, hanging his head. 'You seem to have talked fast enough to your uncle. Mrs.
All those excellent gentlemen in the days gone by who could not contemplate a celestial bliss that did not involve the damnation of those who disagreed with them were in dead earnest. Cotton Mather once saw a black cat perched on the shoulder of an innocent, chattering old gran'ma.
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