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Updated: June 1, 2025
I see she was sufferin' from a rush of curiosity to the head and I cured her by homeopath doses. Every time she opened her mouth I dropped an 'early black' into it. It's a good receipt; you tell Bailey to try it on Ketury some time." To his chums the captain was emphatic in his orders that secrecy be preserved. No one was to be told who the child was or where she came from.
And so, no matter what day or hour Ketury had a mind to rap at anybody's door, folks gen'lly thought it was best to let her in; but then, they never thought her coming was for any good, for she was just like the wind, she came when the fit was on her, she staid jest so long as it pleased her, and went when she got ready, and not before.
Bangs opened the door of the perfect boarding house and stood majestically waiting to receive the prospective guest. Over her shoulders peered the faces of the boarders. "Good afternoon," began the landlady. "I presume likely you would like to " She was interrupted. The newcomer turned toward her and extended his hand. "Hello, Ketury!" he said.
How in time did he ever find spunk enough to propose? And Ketury runs the perfect boardin' house! Well, that ought to be job enough for one woman. She runs Bailey, too, on the side, I s'pose?" "You bet you! He don't dast to say 'boo' to a chicken when she's 'round. I say, Mister! I don't know's I know your name, do I? I judge you've been here afore so " "Yes, I've been here before.
"Then Ketury called out once more, louder'n ever, 'Come down, come down! let's see who ye be. And, sure enough, down comes a man's head, and settled on the shoulders straight enough; and Cap'n Eb, the minit he sot eyes on him, knew he was Jehiel Lommedieu.
"But Cap'n Eb he was a putty brave man, and he wa'n't goin' to have conversation stopped by no woman, witch or no witch; and so, when he see her mutterin', and lookin' up chimbley, he spoke up, and says he, 'Well, Ketury, what do you see? says he. 'Come, out with it; don't keep it to yourself. Ye see Cap'n Eb was a hearty fellow, and then he was a leetle warmed up with the toddy.
"Hum! I s'pose 'twas town affairs kept you, too, hey?" "Well, well er not exactly, as you might say, but " Bailey squeezed himself into the armchair at the end of the table opposite his wife, the end which, with sarcasm not the less keen for being unintentional, was called the "head." "Not exactly town affairs, 'twan't that kept me, Ketury, but My! don't them cod cheeks smell good?
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