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Updated: June 18, 2025
One reason was, I knew the upshot on't would be that somebody would be put up to suggestin' that the money should go for a life-membership in the society for Miss Jaynes, says I; 'and I don't like to encourage anybody in goin' round beggin' for money to buy her own promotion to a high seat in the synagogue. You ought to seen Miss Jaynes's face then!
Staying only to finish the volume, Cornelia repaired to comfort and console her friend, to whose chamber she found ready access in spite of some vague misgivings in Mrs. Jaynes's mind.
"One flew east and one flew west, so I s'pose this will fly into the cuckoo's nest," said Rob, as he read the address: Miss Elizabeth Lloyd Lewis, Jaynes's Post-office, Kentucky. "Why, that's just what mothah calls the place," cried the Little Colonel, "the cuckoo's nest! She says that the cuckoo is the most careless bird in the world about the way it builds its nest.
Still, as an amulet against such fascination, "Jaynes's Vermifuge" might be suggested as efficient, or at least a grain or two of Santonina. In Abyssinia, it is supposed that men who work in iron or pottery are peculiarly endowed with this fatal power of fascination, and in consequence of this prejudice they are expelled from society and even from the privilege of partaking of the holy sacrament.
"If it wa'n't for her bein' Miss Jaynes's sister," said she, one day, to Cornelia, who had been praising her friend, "if it wa'n't for that one thing, I should like her remarkable well, a good deal more'n common." "Pray, what have you got such a spite against the Jayneses for?" asked Cornelia. "What do you mean by askin' such a question as that, Cornele?" said Tira, in a tone of stern reproof.
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