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Updated: June 2, 2025
They began with the one in the family sitting room; Colonel Wheeler, Ralph Thurston, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harmon with Natty and Rufus, Mr. and Mrs. Popham with Digby and Lallie Joy, all standing in admiring groups and thrilling with delight at the order of events.
Maria hurried me into poppin' the question, and hurried me into marryin' her, an' she ain't let up on me a minute sence then; but she'll railroad me into heaven the same way, you see if she don't. She'll arrive 'head o' time as usual and stan' right there at the bars till she gits Dig 'n' Lallie Joy 'n' me under cover!"
Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.
She was thoroughly awake, was Nancy, and there could not have been a greater contrast than that between her and the comatose Lallie Joy, who sat on a wooden chair with her feet on the side rounds. She had taken off her Turkey red sunbonnet and hung it on the chair-back, where its color violently assaulted her flaming locks.
Long silence, Nancy being utterly daunted. "How did you come by your name, Lallie Joy?" "Lallie's out of a book named Lallie Rook, an' I was born on the Joy steamboat line going to Boston." "Oh, I thought Joy was Joy!" "Joy Line's the only joy I ever heard of!"
"I ain't one to hurry," he would say genially; "that's the reason I won't work by the hour or by the day. We've got one 'hurrier' in the family, and that's enough for Lallie Joy 'n' me! Mis' Popham does everything right on the dot, an' Lallie Joy 'n' me git turrible sick o' seein' that dot, 'n' hevin' our 'tention drawed to it if we don't see it.
"What colored trimming did you get?" "Same as old." "Don't they keep anything but magenta?" "Yes, blue." "Why didn't you try blue for a change?" "Dunno; didn't want any change, I guess." "Do you like magenta against your hair?" "Never thought o' my hair; jest thought o' my hat." "Well, you see, Lallie Joy, you can't change your hair, but you needn't wear magenta hats nor red sunbonnets.
It's a poor workman that complains of his tools; Columbus discovered America in an open boat," quoted Nancy, with an irritating air of wisdom. "That may be so," Julia retorted, "but Columbus would never have discovered America with that chopping-knife, I'm sure of that. Is Lallie Joy about our age?" "I don't know.
Grant that trust and peace and comfort may abide within, and that love and light and usefulness may go out from this house forever. Amen." There was a moment's silence and then all the party descended the stairs to the dining room. "Ain't they the greatest?" murmured Lallie Joy, turning to her father, but he had disappeared from the group.
Popham, and I simply tried to show our gratitude to Mr. Thurston for teaching our troublesome children." "How did you know it was my birthday?" asked Thurston. "Didn't you write the date in Lallie Joy's book?" "True, I did; and forgot it long ago; but I have never had my birthday noticed before, and I am twenty-four!" "It was high time, then!" said Mother Carey with her bright smile.
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