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Updated: June 13, 2025
It was all very proper and kind to make the old woman's income hold out as long as possible, but Aunt Matilda did not like this systematic and economical way of living. It was too late in life for her, she said, "to do more measurin' at a meal than chewin';" and so she became discouraged, and managed, one fine morning, to hobble up to see Mrs. Loudon about it.
"There ain't no mistake about his measurin' to that spit?" demanded Hiram of the Cap'n, in the level tones of one already convinced but willing to give the accused one a last chance. "He done it I swear he done it." "I'd thought," pursued the foreman of the Ancients, "that a firemen's muster could be made genteel, and would make a pleasant little trip for the ladies. I was mistaken."
"And I've heahd from a reliable source that he's planned to raid yo'." The others paled at the mention of The Terror. But Modoc raised his voice in fury. "Who are yuh goin' to believe?" he shouted. "This upstart, or me? Why, for all we know" his voice dropped to a taunting sneer "he might be a spy for The Terror himself probably measurin' the strength of our outfit!"
"'But, says th' lawyer f'r th' State, 'measurin' th' vat with gas, an' I lave it to ye whether this is not th' on'y fair test, an' supposin' that two feet acrost is akel to tin feet sideways, an' supposin' that a thick green an' hard substance, an' I daresay it wud; an' supposin' you may, takin' into account th' measuremints, twelve be eight, th' vat bein' wound with twine six inches fr'm th' handle an' a rub iv th' green, thin ar-re not human teeth often found in counthry sausage? 'In th' winter, says th' profissor.
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