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Updated: May 10, 2025
And as she stared, uncertain whether to stay or fly, the color surged into her cheeks and mounted to her fair forehead. "Tom!" she faltered. "I've come back, Polly Ann," said he. But his voice was not so clear as a while ago. Then Polly Ann surprised me. "What made you come back?" said she, as though she didn't care a minkskin. Whereat Mr. McChesney shifted his feet.
Joe's mother kept up the treatment, gittin' up in the night to feed that stuff to him; but the poor little boy got wuss and wuss, and one mornin' he says to his mother, says he: 'Mother, I guess I'm goin' to die, and I'd ruther do that than take any more of that medicine, and I wish you'd call Johnny and we'll trade names back agen, and if he don't want to come and do it, you kin tell him he kin keep the old minkskin I gave him to boot, on account of his name havin' a Wesley in it. 'Trade names, says his mother, 'what do you mean by that? And then he told her what he and Johnny had done.
And as she stared, uncertain whether to stay or fly, the color surged into her cheeks and mounted to her fair forehead. "Tom!" she faltered. "I've come back, Polly Ann," said he. But his voice was not so clear as a while ago. Then Polly Ann surprised me. "What made you come back?" said she, as though she didn't care a minkskin. Whereat Mr. McChesney shifted his feet.
'Take that horse out of that, she hollers, 'and you may kill him if you have to, but git Dr. Barnes here before my little boy dies. When the doctor come he heard the story, and looked at the sick youngster, and then says he: 'If he'd kept his minkskin, and not hankered after a Wesley to his name, he'd a had a better time of it.
Ruth's sweet laughter chimed in, "It looks like minkskin it's so black!" touching it gingerly with the tips of her fingers. The judge laughed, too. Everything that she said and did pleased him. But he cautioned the boy again not to lose the string, and to be careful to bring it back. William Pressley looked on in grave, indifferent silence.
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