handkercheve

Updated: May 7, 2025

They said 'Uncle David do you mean David Bolling? and I did, so I said 'yes. Then all the Hutchinsons pitched into Aunt Margaret and kept laughing and saying, 'Who is this mysterious child anyway, and how is it that her guardians intrust her to a crowd of scatter brain youngsters for so long? and then they said 'Uncle David Bolling what does his mother say? Then Aunt Margaret got very red in the face and the tears started to come, and I said 'I am not a mysterious child, and my Uncle David is as much my Uncle David as they all are, and then I said 'My Aunt Margaret has got a perfect right to have me intrusted to her at any time, and not to be laughed at for it, and I went and stood in front of her and gave her my handkercheve.

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley - Turn About Eleanor