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Amos Ridings assumed practical direction of it. "Now we don't want a candidate to go out not once. Every man stay at home and not open his head. We'll do the work. You tend your knittin' and we'll elect yeh." The boys went out on Friday nights, to electioneer for the Granger ticket, as it was called. "It's boss fun," Milton said to his father. "It's ahead o' husking corn.
He announced that he was to report himself on the morrow, and she merely commented, 'Quick work. 'But, Christina, ye couldna ha'e guessed I was for enlistin', he said, after a pause. 'I was afraid I mean for to say, I fancied ye were the sort to dae it. If I had kent for sure, I wud ha'e been knittin' ye socks instead o' a silly tie for yer birthday. 'Ha'e ye been knittin' a tie for me?
Take him before I spill him! I'm so happy I joggle. She's knittin' an' she's comin' home! I mean knittin' enough. She said 'my dear children I expect to be home to-morrow Aunt Sarah is better an' I can't wait to see you your mother Mercy gracious, when Stefana got to your mother, seemed as if I'd burst! We hollered it to Carruthers, an' he burst!
That was a love of a place on the English Channel, where we had two rooms with the Mebers in their funny little brick house, the "Netto." Simple folk they were: Mr. Meber a retired sailor, the wife rather worn with constant roomers, one daughter a dressmaker, the other working in the "knittin" shop.
Evangeline broke in gloomily with explanation. "No'm, not knittin', Mother wrote Stefana. Kind of of unravelin' instead. An' Mother's caught it." Miss Theodosia turned appealing eyes to Stefana. "Her knee's bad, too. Maybe it's just rheumatism, but she borrows Aunt Sarah's crutches when they're empty. I don't see how she'd get home " "Don't send for her!" Miss Theodosia directed.
She didn't throw the reins down on her pony's neck, an' she didn't pull in on the bit; she just played it in his mouth to keep remindin' him that this was his busy day, an' that he'd better tend to his knittin'. Old Starlight knew every move I made, an' he was resigned to a good long pump of it. I nonsensed a while, tryin' to get her to laugh an' cut up, but not her.
We had to eat what come cheapest, an' when some of the women here wuz a sittin' comfortable o' nights, a knittin' an' sewin' an' readin', mother wuz hangin' aroun' the butchershop, tryin' to beat the butcher down on the scraps that wasn't good enough for you folks. Soon as we young 'uns was big enough to do anything we wuz put to work.
Why, he kin figgah ez fast ez I kin ravel out a piece o' knittin', an' I nevah in my borned days heard nobody, 'cept mayby Preachah Stone, whut could read lak him. He kin run 'long ovah them big names in the papah an' them generalgies in the Bible lak a racin' pony. Susan, our eldest gal, is a little the rise o' fourteen, an' wuz counted the best spellah in the school last wintah.
He walked in on me an' a two-weeks ironin' one mornin' with, 'Lemme present myself as Ebenezer Goodnight, sewin' needles, knittin' needles, crochet hooks an' shuttles an' anything o' that, an' down he set an' never opened his mouth about his needles again. Eb was real delicate, for an agent. He just talked all the time about Friendship an' himself.
"Here, Susan Jane, han' me my knittin' from th' table, 'n' go 'n' tell Jim ter pitch in some pine knots 'n' make er light in here, 'n' be quick erbout it"; and Mother Tyler settled herself in another home-made rocker and began to knit rapidly.
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