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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Well, I may make up my mind to take the chance anyhow, and if I do you had better. Say, if you hear I've gone, you just go through your little green door, will you?" "Maybe," whispered Letitia doubtfully, and then her Great-great-grandmother Letitia came back. "There isn't a sign of an Injun here," said she, "and I am 'most froze. I'm going to start the fire, and you boy, you had better come too.
They all wore white and the arch was covered with roses. Grandma Sparks loves to tell of it and how Washington patted her great-great-grandmother on the head! If you ask her to tell you the story she will be very happy, Keineth." "I like her guns best " cried Billy. "She's got all kinds of guns and things they used way back in the Revolution!"
Perhaps somewhere not far back along her line there had been a great-great-grandmother who had lived some kind of a primitive life, using such implements and necessaries as hung on this cabin wall, and thereby helped some man to conquer the wilderness, to live in it, and reproduce his kind. Like flashes Glenn's words came back to Carley "Work and children!"
'She speaks, thought Irene, 'just as if she had seen me five minutes ago, or yesterday at the farthest. No, she answered; 'I don't know what you are spinning. Please, I thought you were a dream. Why couldn't I find you before, great-great-grandmother? 'That you are hardly old enough to understand. But you would have found me sooner if you hadn't come to think I was a dream.
Then her face had resumed its vacant expression. She seemed indifferent to every one and everything, laughing, sometimes, at an accident, at a fall, but most often seeing nothing and hearing nothing, gazing fixedly into vacancy. When Charles had been brought to her the keeper had immediately installed him before the little table, in front of his great-great-grandmother.
She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
"He watched the disappearing skirt of your great-great-grandmother." "She was doubtless a very venerable old lady," said he, flushing and helping himself to wine. "I never knew her, but she wasn't a patch on Betty!" "But," said I, "when your great-great-grandfather opened the door for her to pass out, she wasn't venerable at all, but gloriously young." "I suppose he was satisfied, poor old chap."
"Haven't I killed ten wolves and aren't their heads nailed to the outside of the meeting-house?" Letitia was quite sure that the boy lied, but she knew that he lied to please her, and she liked him for it. Great-great-grandmother Letitia sniffed. "You are the greatest braggart in the Precinct," said she. "Nary a wolf have you killed, and you ran because you heard a wild cat or a bear.
Nay, so vigorously was it done that the spear went in at one side and came out at the other! "Oh, Peterkin!" said I, going up to him, "what have you done?" "Done? I've killed their great-great-grandmother, that's all," said he, looking with a somewhat awe-struck expression at the transfixed animal. "Hallo! what's this?" said Jack, as he came up. "Why, Peterkin, you must be fond of a tough chop.
There was not much to put on beside a coarse wool petticoat and a straight little wool gown, rough yarn stockings, and such shoes as she had never seen. "I couldn't run from Injuns in these," thought Letitia miserably. When she got downstairs she discovered what the buzzing noise was. Her great-great-grandmother was spinning.
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