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Updated: July 24, 2025
An "advanced" woman who had once spent a Summer in the village had spread abroad the delights of Battenberg and raised embroidery. At all of these, Miss Hitty sniffed contemptuously. "Quilt makin' was good enough for their mas and their grandmas," she said scornfully, "and I reckon it's good enough for anybody else. I've no patience with such things." Araminta knew that.
And so it did. The bands began to play, and when the tent was filled with boys and girls, and their papas and mammas, and grandpas and grandmas, there was a grand procession of all the performers. The elephants, of which Tum Tum was one, also marched around, as did lots of the ponies and dogs. "I wonder when it will come my turn to do tricks?" thought Mappo. His turn soon came.
Cox observes, these old men and women, sitting by the chimney-corner and somewhat timidly recounting to the literary explorer the stories which they had learned in childhood from their own nurses and grandmas, "reproduce the most subtle turns of thought and expression, and an endless series of complicated narratives, in which the order of incidents and the words of the speakers are preserved with a fidelity nowhere paralleled in the oral tradition of historical events.
I wonder, if, when folks be dead, they have to sweep crossings, and be kicked and cuffed round by old grandmas when they don't get no pennies? If they don't then I wish I was dead, too, Arch!" "I suppose it's wicked, Mat. She used to say so. She told me never to get tired of waiting for God's own time her very words, Mat. Well, now her time has come, and I am all alone all alone!
Quick there take her baskets. Now then, don't let go my arm here comes the train. Sh! don't cry, there's nothing to bawl about, we're all good fellows all of us got grandmas who'd make just as big fools of themselves if they had to travel." And with infinite care and tenderness a dozen hands hoisted their precious burden into the dimly lighted wooden-benched compartment.
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