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Updated: June 26, 2025
In the bed, propped on pillows and with throat bandaged, Chick executed a lively tune with knife and fork on his plate, while Maria Flathers dedicated herself to the task of preventing Loreny May from putting her blue-slippered foot in the butter. Without, the sleet pelted the windows, and the red top of Mr. Iseling's wagon waiting at the gate.
"'No, Loreny, he says, 'I ain't. "'Land's sakes! I says, 'do you mean to say you can be two things at once in religion, as well as bein' Shakespeare and Doc Weaver? "'Yes, Loreny, he says. 'The spirit has got to be somewheres between the times it has got a body, he says, 'That stands to reason.
"'Loreny, he says, solemn as a deacon, 'I didn't reckon never to tell nobody, an' you mustn't judge what I tell you too quick. I ain't made up my mind sudden-like, he says, 'but have studied myself and what I like and don't like, for years, and I've jist been forced to it, he says.
"'Well, Doc, I says, when we was outside, 'seems to me like there is two of you, and that was all I says to him about it, then; but I guess he see what a fool he'd been, 'cause the next night he says, 'Loreny, I wisht you'd git me a set of the articles of belief of our church. I'd like to look them over. "'Well, I says, 'who'll I say wants them, Shakespeare or Doc Weaver?
Myrtella says there ain't no fools like old ones." "That's all right," said Phineas; "she'll have more to say when I give Loreny a diamond ring on her next birthday. Iseling'll be givin' me a raise soon. He's as good as said so. He knows I'm good fer everything from bossin' a big job to drivin' a wagon; then look at the trade I command!
The table, set in the bedroom so that Chick might participate, was decorated at one end by a gorgeous pink cake, bearing a single candle, and at the other by Loreny herself, blue of eye, and chubby of cheek, who crawled triumphantly about among the dishes, bestowing equal attention on the sugar bowl and the molasses jug, only pausing to emit ecstatic screams when a rough, red head appeared above the table rim.
Then he turned round to ma an' me, weak as a sick baby, an' says, 'Come, Loreny; this lyin' place ain't nowhere for you and me to be, and we went out.
Miss Lady could find no answer. The white lips and the blue circles about the small, sunken eyes, bespoke the same disinclination to risk life under such circumstances as had been shown by all the other little Flatherses. "Course she ain't like that other baby," Phineas went on with genuine earnestness, "but then he's a boy, an' eats more. She's goin' to git fat an' pretty, ain't you, Loreny?"
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