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"Why, ter tell the truth," grinned Walky, "it was a soft job, for I carried five pounds of feathers in a bolster twelve miles to old Miz' Kittridge one Winter day when I was a boy. I got a dollar for it and come as nigh bein' froze ter death as ever a boy did and save his bacon." "Do tell us about it, Walky," said Janice, who was wiping the supper dishes for her aunt.
She included and then banished it all with one sweeping gesture. "Nothing of the kind. This is this is an anachronism." "Mebbe so," retorted Miz' Merz with equal crispness. "But it's got to be cleaned just the same. Yessir; it's got to be cleaned." They smiled at each other then, the mother and daughter.
Anybody dead over yo' way, Miz Barker I mean anybody that ought to be?" This interested Mrs. Barker, and upon the head she tapped into sloth her rising resentment. "Nobody dead," she said, with a smack of the mouth, "but Liza Pruitt ain't expected to git well." "Oh, is that the one they had the talk about consarnin' of the preacher?" "Yes, Brother Lane." "Brother Fool.
Husband and me, we'll ride into Brookhaven and bring 'em out to ow place and jest take ca'e of 'em untel yo' clerk is found." "Miz Wall!" cried the husband "She's busy talkin'. Miz Wall! she don't hyuh me. I hate to interrupt heh. Oh, Miz Wall! hyuh's Majo' Harper's clerk, right now!" "Law, you hain't!" cried Mrs. Wall, smiling back as she jounced.
Your mother must have been dreadfully frightened when you came home and she saw " She was interrupted by the entrance of a middle-aged coloured woman. "Miz Williams," she began, and then, as she caught sight of Penrod, she addressed him directly, "You' ma telefoam if you here, send you home right away, 'cause they waitin' dinner on you." "Run along, then," said Mrs.
I know it's some worruk, but it's a bonnie border to lie under, an' it's not so tedious whan there's plenty o' folks to tak a hand." They carried the topic along with a whirl then and Mrs. Harricutt had no more chance to harry her hostess. Then suddenly Mary arose in a panic: "I left my pies in the oven!" she cried, "They'll be burned to a crisp. I must go. Miz Harricutt, are you going along now?
"Miz Williams, I reckon the house goin' fall down!" this pessimist said, arriving out of breath. "That s'iety o' Mist' Sam's suttenly tryin' to pull the roof down on ow haids!" "The roof?" Mrs. Williams inquired mildly. "They aren't in the attic, are they?" "No'm; they in the celluh, but they REACHIN' fer the roof!
"When a man marries a queen he ought to grade up with her on the hoof dressed dried corned any old way from the chaparral to the packing- house. Lots of folks thinks it's funny, Webb, that you don't have the say-so on the Nopalito. I ain't reflectin' none on Miz Yeager she's the finest little lady between the Rio Grande and next Christmas but a man ought to be boss of his own camp."
A small, reddish ball, obviously the yolk, rolled across the board, fell into the sink and broke into powdery fragments. A faint etherlike odor arose from the mess. "I guess Miz Thompson was right," Barney said. "She said that hen musta been pecking in the fertilizer chemicals. Never seen no egg like that before." "Yeh," Johnny said puzzledly. "Well, so much for that."
Did it with Green Springs water and fresh limes. Awful dose! But inside of two weeks she had me rowing a boat." "Really!" says Gladys, smotherin' a yawn. "Don't you believe him, Miz Prentice," protests Valentina. "It was just livin' a month in Sand Spur. That would cure anyone of anything." "Sand Spur!" echoes Gladys. "It must be a wonderful place." Valentina and Warrie swaps grins.
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