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"Who d'youse t'ink it is-me gran'mother?" demanded Rhoda Gray caustically. "Who are youse?" "Rorke," said Rorke shortly. "I guess you know, don't you?" "Is dat so?" snorted Rhoda Gray. "Well den, youse can beat it hop it on de jump! Wot t'hell right have youse got bustin' into me room at dis time of night eh? I ain't done nothin'!" Rough Rorke, his feet scuffling to feel the way, came forward.
My old gran'mother used to tell me, whin I refused to go to the school that was kip be an owld man as tuck his fees out in murphies and photteen, says she: `Ah ye spalpeen, ye'll niver be cliverer nor the pig, ye wont. `Ah, then, I hope not, says I, `for sure she's far the cliverest in the house, an' ye wouldn't have me to be cliverer than me own gran'mother, would ye? says I. So I niver wint to school, and more be token, I can't sign me name, and if it was only to learn how to do that, I'll go and jine; indeed I will."
'And did you get the honours, and all those things, Elizabeth? 'Well, I got the rare gifts in a manner o' speaking. My gran'mother died a month later an' left me a pair o' jet earrings and a jet bracelet to match one o' them stretchin' ones, on elastic, you know. That incident established Elizabeth in The Kid's estimation as a prophet. Old Moore himself couldn't have done better.
The face of the young girl for she was quite young reddened, and she slackened her steps so as to fall behind the rude, unfeeling couple, who sought to make themselves merry at her expense. "She is gypsy!" said the young lady, laughing. "Gran'mother! How are catnip and hoarhound, snakeroot and tansy, selling to-day?
Have ye got anythin' like a dror, or anythin' 't ye could lock up? says he. "'No, says I, 'I hain't, but I'll tell ye what I can do. I can put 'em inter th' old Gran'mother Tyson soup-turreen, 't I don't believe the led of it 's been lifted this ten year; they'll be as safe as ef they was buried an' in their graves, says I. An' so I thought, but ye know how things is all'as sartin to happen.
"All ri'! all ri'!" laughed Sally, as she deposited the freshly-filled tankards upon the tables, "why, what a 'urry to be sure! And is your gran'mother a-dyin' an' you wantin' to see the pore soul afore she'm gone! I never see'd such a mighty rushin'" A chorus of good-humoured laughter greeted this witticism, which gave the company there present food for many jokes, for some considerable time.
Do marigolds bring luck?" Great-gran'mother, she died soon after, and gran'mother were sore disappointed not to find a few shillin's tied up in a stockin'. The cottage were sold, but gran'father bought it hisself, and moved into it with his family; and years passed, and then gran'father, he died of a fever, and gran'mother brought up eleven boys and girls wi' credit.
Runty smiled in his turn and also said he saw. "If that's vot you vant," he said, "you've got it. The strike is on, an' afore you gets through with Gran'mother Cruncher you'll have so much o' the same kind o' notoriety that you an' her'll make a team, an' you both orter grow rich by just hex'ibitin' of your two selves!" "Capital!" cried Mr. Scollop in much excitement, ringing his bell vigorously.
Hannah peered forth from the blackness of the back seat. "Now, let me think," she said. "Last time I went to Bayport by this road was four year ago come next February. Sarah Snow's daughter Becky was married to a feller named Higgins Solon Higgins' son 'twas. No, 'twa'n't his son, because " "Aw, crimus! Who cares if 'twas his aunt's gran'mother? What I want to know is which road to take."
"Phoebe 's doin' braave, an' she prays of 'e to go downlong fust thing an' tell Miller all 's well. Doctor Parsons hisself says 't is a 'mazing fine cheel, so it ban't any mere word of mine as wouldn't weigh, me bein' the gran'mother."
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