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However, the flames leaped high into the great chimney mouth, when Captain John Hopkins and his wife entered. "How pleasant it is, and how thankful we ought to be to have a good warm room to enter," said Great-great-great-grandmother Letitia Hopkins, although she looked very grave. The sick neighbor was very sick unto death, it was feared, and she was a good woman and a good neighbor.
I know just what the bride and Hannah wore, for we have pieces of the material in our oldest cedar chest; but, of course, as they weren't your own great-great-great-grandmother and aunt, perhaps you wouldn't care to have me tell you all about their costumes.
You see, sir, my great-great-great-grandmother has on the new-fashioned petticoat, except that the modern is gathered at the waist; my grandmother appears as if she stood in a large drum, whereas the ladies now walk as if they were in a go-cart. "If you please to fall back a little, because it is necessary to look at the three next pictures at one view; these are three sisters.
You know of my unfortunate affliction in having to appear or disappear whenever my fairy great-great-great-grandmother wishes. He's safe enough, isn't he?" he added, inconsequently nodding his head towards "the Bellows." "Who is? What do you mean?" I inquired. "The dragon, of course," said Shin Shira. "The dragon!" I exclaimed.
However, when the Winthrop cousins begin to put on airs, and to talk about autograph letters from Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson addressed to their great-great-great-grandmother, and to show beautiful carved fans and lace handkerchiefs which she carried at State balls in Philadelphia and New York, I have to bite my tongue to keep from reminding them that they have no autograph letters of hers!
Holbrook was partaking of a glass of something warm and spicy which Great-great-great-grandmother Letitia Hopkins mixed for him. It was a cordial of her own compounding and a good thing for the stomach on a bitter morning, and this morning was very bitter. Josephus whispered to Letitia: "He will give me an awful licking when we get home, and I am not afraid, honest.
"Why don't you eat?" asked her great-great-great-grandmother severely. "I don't like it," faltered Letitia. If possible, they were all more shocked by that than they had been by her ignorance. "She doesn't like the good porridge," the little great-great-aunts said to each other. "Eat the porridge," commanded Captain John Hopkins sternly, when he had gotten over his surprise.
Then she had just fallen into a sweet doze when she was pulled out of bed. "Come, come," said her great-great-great-grandmother, Goodwife Hopkins, "we can have no lazy damsels here." Letitia found that her bedfellows were up and dressed and downstairs. She heard a queer buzzing sound from below, as she stood in her bare feet on the icy floor and gazed about her, dizzy with sleep.
"Where am I?" Letitia asked feebly, but no sooner had she opened her mouth than her great-great-great-grandmother, Goodwife Hopkins, who had been watching her chance, popped in the pewter spoon full of some horribly black and bitter medicine. Letitia nearly choked. "Swallow it," said Goodwife Hopkins. "You swooned away, and it is good physic. It will soon make you well."
Her great-great-grandmother and her great-great-aunts made shocked exclamations, and her great-great-great-grandmother looked at her with horror. "You have been brought up as one of the heathen," said she. Then she produced a small book, and Letitia was bidden to seat herself upon a stool and learn the doctrine of predestination before breakfast.
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