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Still, there was nothing to do, not then at least, and bidding the Clock good-by, she and Andy hurried away. The blue moon was setting, and soon, they knew, it would be day. They hastened their steps and had nearly reached the tunnel when Andy suddenly pulled Hortense into the bushes beside the path. Down the path came the sound of footsteps and past them hurried Jeremiah and Grater.
There has bin grater singers and there has bin more bootiful wimin, but no more fassinatin young female ever longed for a new gown, or side to place her hed agin a vest pattern than Maria Picklehomony. Fassinatin peple is her best holt. She was born to make hash of men's buzzums & other wimin mad becawz thay ain't Picklehomonies.
At this point, our metaphysical observation shall stop and we will enter into an analysis of the circumstances which develop the will of man and impart to it a grater degree of strength or weakness. Do not believe, however, that it is our aim to induce you to put cataplasms on the honor of your wife, to lock her up in a sweating house, or to seal her up like a letter; no.
But if you rub them sideways they are as rough as a stiff brush or a nutmeg grater." Well, Billie and Johnnie thought more of the rushes after that, but, as they walked on with Uncle Wiggily, when he had put them in his pocket, they could think of no way in which he could use them.
Andy asked. "Let's take every one along Alligator, and Malay Kris, and Highboy, and Lowboy, and Coal and Ember, and Owl. Perhaps we'll think of something. Or maybe Alligator will swallow Grater!" "It doesn't do any good for Alligator to swallow anything," said Andy. "It's always found in the sofa in the morning anyhow." "Grandfather might know what to do with it," said Hortense.
I immediately opened up conversation with him, and learned he was from a small town in Illinois, whence he had started as a canvasser, selling nutmeg-graters. I asked how he was doing. He said he had been out three days, and hadn't sold a grater. I asked if he had worked hard, and he said yes, but he hadn't "nerve" enough for that business. I asked him to show me one, which he did.
"What next?" asked Lowboy. "You'll see," said Hortense, who began to repeat the charm which Grater had spoken: Ride, ride, ride For the world is fair and wide. The moon shines bright On a magic night, And Tom and Jerry Are able very To ride, ride, ride. At the first words Tom turned reproachful eyes upon her. "I didn't think it of you, Hortense," said he.
On her I'll grate As sure as fate. This was certainly a disagreeable prospect, for Grater must prove very scratchy indeed. "I surely must keep away from him," Hortense reflected. She forgot her fear of Grater in a moment, however, for there was a noise as of claws on the attic floor, and the movement of a heavy body. "It's Alligator!" she said aloud. "Yes, it's me," Alligator answered.
She obeyed me; but, at the same time, I observed she put the potatoes on the fire, a proof she had not much faith in my bread-making. I then spread a cloth over the ground, and, giving each of the boys a grater, we began to grate the carefully-washed manioc roots, resting the end on the cloth.
"You want to grate it," said Beatrice. "Fetch me the nutmeg-grater." She arranged the bread in the oven. He brought the grater, and she grated the bread on to a newspaper on the table. He set the doors open to blow away the smell of burned bread. Beatrice grated away, puffing her cigarette, knocking the charcoal off the poor loaf. "My word, Miriam! you're in for it this time," said Beatrice.
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