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Updated: May 19, 2025
The looking-glass in the kitchen is broken. All over the floor. Oh, oh! What is it?" "I don't know any more than you do. I didn't do it." "Lookin'-glasses broken is a sign of death in the house," said Cordelia. "If it's me, I hope I'm ready; but I'd rather die than be so scared as I've been lately." Mr. Townsend shook himself loose and eyed the two trembling women with gathering resolution.
He rode a mighty fine horse, and Sam Amos, he says, 'I believe in my soul if I'd 'a' been on that horse I could 'a' taken off every one o' them rings. Sam was a mighty good rider, and Milly used to say that the only thing that'd make Sam enjoy ridin' more'n he did was for somebody to put up lookin'-glasses so he could see himself all along the road.
They want me to go to the Red-skins to make peace between them and us; and they've brought a lot o' goods to make them presents withal, beads, an' knives, an' lookin'-glasses, an vermilion paint, an' sich-like, jist as much as'll be a light load for one horse for, ye see, nothin' can be done wi' the Red-skins without gifts." "'Tis a blessed mission," said the widow, "I wish it may succeed.
"'One day, when the ice were a'most out of the river, father an' me concluded it was about time to start on our usual tradin' expedition; so we went to work an' got all our goods which consisted of beads, hatchets, lookin'-glasses, blankets, an' such like into the big canoe, an' were goin' to start 'arly in the mornin' to pay a visit to the Osage Injuns, an' trade our things for their furs.
They want me to go to the Redskins to make peace between them and us; and they've brought a lot o' goods to make them presents withal beads, an' knives, an' lookin'-glasses, an' vermilion paint, an' sich like, jist as much as'll be a light load for one horse for, ye see, nothin' can be done wi' the Redskins without gifts." "'Tis a blessed mission," said the widow; "I wish it may succeed.
So I follered him; and he led the way into a beautiful room, kinder round, and red colored, with lots of elegant pictures and lookin'-glasses and books. The President sot before a table covered with books and papers: and, good land! he no need to have been afraid and hung back; he was dressed up slick slick enough for meetin', or a parin'-bee, or any thing.
"And there's a winder there," he declared, pointing at the real window. "They're both winders and they're both lookin'-glasses, for I see us all in both of them. This place is haunted. Lem-me out!" "Take thish, then," cried Louis, shoving the bottle towards him and floundering across to the door to bar the way. "Take thish, or tell me whish ish the window."
"Mary," she said, "git up an' see if you can find my other pair of lookin'-glasses. Seems like I can't git the sense of it." Mrs. Wiggs meanwhile was excitedly commenting on the charms of the "spirit picture": "My, but he's siylish! Looks fer all the world like a' insurance agent. Looks like he might be a little tall to his size, but I like statute men better 'n dumpy ones.
"Both winders, I tell you, and both lookin'-glasses," vowed the man. The other four fellows declined to express an opinion for the very good reason that two were asleep and two befuddled beyond questioning. "See here, Louis," I exclaimed, "there's only one way to tell where to throw that bottle." "Yesh, Rufush," and he came to me as if I were his only friend on earth.
You don't really like to see the dimpled, soft hands change into an older person's hands; you kinder hate to change the face for an older, more care-worn face; you get sick of lookin'-glasses.
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