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Updated: June 11, 2025
The air was damp and chill, she was sitting on a cold stone step, and a loud "kerchoo" suddenly startled the two plotters on the porch. The children were so frightened they could not move, but they rolled up their eyes, and over the edge of the balustrade they saw two shadowy heads looking down at them. "Who's there?" said the voice of Lampon. The children were too frightened to answer.
They sang the songs that were to be interspersed as illustrations in Bea's class history. There was the elegant stanza which they had shouted all the way to the mountain lake that first October at college. "'Rah, 'rah, 'rah! kerchoo, kerchoo! We are freshmen Who are you?"
His handsome nose didn't exactly come off but it was not for lack of sneezing. "Kerchoo! Kerchoo!" he gasped for breath, choking and sneezing at the same time. "Heavens, girl!" he finally sputtered. "How much pepper do you usually put on chops?" "Mine is fine," ventured his guest. "Excuse, please," and Josie gave a stiff curtsy. "My foot slipped and I bane put more pepper than I meant."
"So he called his children together and sat in the door of his cave. "First he took a big pinch o' snuff. That was a very bad habit folks had in those days. "Kerchoo! he sneezed, and blew two big clouds out of the sky. "Kerchoo!!! he sneezed again, and turned upside down a whole fleet of ships in the ocean.
"Here I am!" he cried, and with a thump he landed on the barn floor, so wrapped and tangled in a clump of hay that he was not in the least hurt. "I'm all kerchoo right kerchoo Nan!" he said, talking and sneezing at the same time. "Well, I'm glad we found you, anyhow!" laughed his sister. "How did it happen?" "Oh, it just happened," was all Freddie could say. "I was looking for eggs, and I slipped.
And the children got down on their knees around the tub and tried to take the apples in their teeth. But round and round they bobbed, so fast that it was difficult to catch them. "Ugh!" exclaimed Jehosophat; "Kerchoo!" sneezed Marmaduke; "Guhuh!" coughed Hepzebiah, all their eyes and their mouths, noses and tummies, too, full of water. And always those little red apples bobbed out of reach.
The chutes did not come all the way to the floor, there being room under each one to set a box or bushel basket. "Wiggle some more, Freddie!" again advised Nan. "I will!" came the answer. "I'll wiggle hard and I'll Oh kerchoo!" That was Freddie sneezing, and he sneezed so hard that it did more good than his wiggling, for it sent him sliding down with a mass of hay to the bottom of the chute.
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