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The table was set in the middle of the room, and the dishes were arranged in nice order; and just in the centre was Lolly's pewter mug, with a bunch of sweet, blue violets to grace it all. There was the savoury odour of the baking cake from the fire, and the fumes of the steeping tea filled the room, and already gave a sense of refreshing to the weary work-people.
Hank further informed the minister that that second Crawley boy was a limb and closed his observations by asking the Reverend John Roger Churchill Knight if he didn't think Nanny Ainslee was the prettiest girl in church? Whereupon the minister promptly agreed with him. That, then, was Hank Lolly's introduction to a proper and conventional religious life.
"No, I am going to make a cucumber grow inside this," was the answer. "Make a cucumber grow in a bottle?" exclaimed Hal. "Why, how funny!" "Let's go see!" cried Mab, and together they ran over to Aunt Lolly's garden. "Maybe this is another joke, like the eyes of the potatoes," said Hal to his sister, as they ran along.
But before those evenings came Hal and Mab had harvested all the things in the garden, with the help of their father and mother, Uncle Pennywait and Aunt Lolly. "We must get in the pea and bean vines," said Daddy Blake when he saw what a hard frost there had been. "Then we'll thresh them on the barn floor and it will be time soon, Hal, to husk your corn and bring in Aunt Lolly's pumpkins."
Hank Lolly's leg was healed up but Doc said he would always limp a bit. Seth and his wife had made up, of course, but neither of them could ever efface from their hearts and memories the cruel scenes that had marred their life this past year. Seth no longer went near the saloon. He had paid dearly for his stubbornness and would continue to pay to the end of his days.
"Had the room next to her last night. Heard her drag the bed in front of the door of her room. She knew I was there, all right!" Deveny laughed deeply. "She's wised up by this time. Lolly Kaye hates her because Barbara's a good-looking girl, I suppose. That's like some women. Lolly would see Barbara roasting in hell and not give her a hand!" "Lolly's been disappointed in love I reckon."
He went to his twelve o'clock dinner perched on Hank Lolly's shoulder, and it had gotten so no gathering of men in his father's office was considered complete without him. And maybe it was just as well; for since Billy's coming there was less careless language, less careless gossip.
Sometimes he would even hide Aunt Lolly's spectacles and she would have the hardest work finding them. Oh, such hard work! "Well, Daddy," asked Mab, after Mr. Blake had sat silent for some time, "have you thought of a way to tell us what makes the shiny stuff in the in the in the Oh! I can't say that big word!" she finished with a sigh. "The mercury in the thermometer!" laughed Daddy Blake.
That is if Uncle Pennywait doesn't get ahead of you," he added with a sly wink at Aunt Lolly's husband. Hal and Mab hurried to look mere closely at their garden plots. Hal found, just as he had after the hail storm, that, fey hoeing dirt higher around his hills of corn he could make some of the stalks that had been trampled down, stand up straight. And Mab's beans could also be improved.
She went to Doc Mitchell but he put her off because he was regulating and pulling every tooth in Hank Lolly's head. She was just sick to think she had to miss Lilac Sunday and Mr. Courtney's last sermon, but she told me to be sure and listen and if he let on he was sorry he was leaving not to believe him, because he's had everything except the parlor furniture crated for a month.
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