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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I guess John'll have to git his own fodder to-night, or go without. He's used to it, though. I brings my man up not to expect a woman to drudge, drudge, about house. But, mercy me!" she exclaimed, "where's that child gone to? I warrant he's in some mischief;" and, opening the door, she called, "Bub, Bub! come inter the huss!" But Bub did not answer.
W'en ole Miss wuz livin'," continued the old man, still addressing some imaginary person, 'hit 'uz mo'n enny her chilluns 'ud dast ter do ter come 'sputin' longer me, en Mars John'll tell you de same enny day you ax 'im." "Well, Uncle Remus, you know you said the Rabbit poured hot water on the Wolf and killed him," said the little boy. The old man pretended not to hear.
"Let me see," she said to herself. "They shall have a happy day for once. I suppose John'll grumble, but the Lord has sent me this money, and I mean to use part of it to make one good day for them." Having settled this in her mind, she walked on more quickly, and visited various shops in the neighbourhood.
Jake grunted. "I never thought of it before. It takes a woman to see sich things. My, John'll git a prize if he hooks Nell. Strange that she takes to him, an' him only a hired man. Why, she's fit fer a parson's wife." "I don't believe he's only a hired man," his wife replied. "Woman, what d'ye mean?" Jake demanded in surprise. "Oh, I don't exactly know. But he's the queerest hired man I ever saw.
The girl's eyes lighted up. She would not have gone if her mother had wished her to stay, but she would always have regarded this as the lost opportunity of her life. "Are you sure you don't care, mamma?" she asked, hoping and yet doubting. "Oh, I'll manage to git along somehow or other. You can go an' stay till you git homesick, an' then John'll let you come back home."
Engaged folks don't usually stay apart more than a week, especially when the one is as near the other as Boston is to Trumet." Daniel knocked the ashes from his pipe into the wastebasket. "Oh, oh, John'll be along pretty soon, I shouldn't wonder," he said hastily. "He he's pretty busy these days, I suppose." "Nice thing his bein' taken into the firm, after Mr. Griffin died, wasn't it.
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