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Updated: May 28, 2025
She stood close beside him while he took a match from his waistcoat pocket and gave it to her. "I won't have you leavin' matches layin' all about the house," he commanded; "mice'll get at 'em, and set us afire. You can make up some lamplighters out of old letters and things; there's a lot o' stuff that might be used up. Seems to me lamplighters is gone out o' fashion; they come in very handy."
"You don't think the mice'll git at them pies up in the blue chist, do ye?" inquired old Mis' Meade, fatuous in a desperate seeking to direct the talk. Amarita gave her a passing glance of wonder. "Why, no," she said. "They couldn't get in to save their little souls. You see" she turned again to Elihu "the agent was here this afternoon "
There's something I'll speak about before I forget it: the mice have eat the backs of a pile o' old books that's stored away in the west chamber closet next to Miss Katharine's room, and I set a trap there, but it was older 'n the ten commandments, that trap was, and the spring's rusty. I guess you'd better get some new ones and set round in different places, 'less the mice'll pester you.
In response to several clearly audible knocks, the front door failed to open, and Dirty Dan heard Don walk round the house to the back door. "The young divil!" he reiterated to himself. "Faith, whin the cat's away the mice'll play, an' divil a worrd o' lie in that!
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