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Updated: May 10, 2025

But she did not get up in the night to put an extra chunk of wood in the stove of the down-stairs bedroom. "Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah! Ab-bie Sno-ver, na aa ah!" Old Chris stopped shoveling snow to shake his fist at the yelling children. "Your Mas'll fix you, if you don't stop that screechin'!" And they answered: "Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris! Ab-bie Sno-ver, an' old Chris!"

- The Best Short Stories of 1917: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story