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She walked to the sink and took a clean, two-gallon milk can from the drainboard and set it in the sink to fill it from the pails of rich, frothy milk Barney had brought in the pails. "Sally come fresh this morning, Miz Thompson," he said. "Got herself a real fine little bull calf." Hetty looked at the two pails of milk. "Well, where's the rest of the milk, then?"
At each station, when the train came to a stand-still, some passenger, hanging head and elbows out of his window, like a quilt draped over a chair, would address a citizen on the platform: "Hey, Sam, how's Miz Bushkirk?" "She's wal." "Where's Milt, this afternoon?" "Warshing the buggy." Then at the cry, "All 'board" "See you Sunday over at Amo." "You make Milt come. I'll be there, shore. So long."
"No; I mean to-day." "Law! He ain' comin' back. Bid me pack de trunk an' ca'y um down to de boat at noon. Den he bid me say far'-ye-well an' a kine good-bye fo' him, honey. An' dass what me an' Mamie reckon 'spechually boun' to take place, 'cause dat a mighty gay lady, dat big Miz Tanberry, an' ole frien' 'er owah fambly. She 'uz a frien' er yo' momma's, honey."
"But the other butcher ain't much better," cried another troubled housewife. "And the flies!" "Oh, the awful flies!" chorused several. "Them critters is a pest, an' that's a fac'," declared Mrs. Scattergood. "Talk abeout the plagues o' Egypt " "But Miz' Petrie was tellin' us how Boston was different " "My soul and body!" gasped Mrs. Beasely. "I reckon she's told us enough.
An' he had two pairs o' them white flannen britches, but hones'ly, Miz Baxter, I don't scarcely think Genesis would wear 'em, the way they is now! 'Well, I says, 'ain't but one thing lef' to do I can see, I says. 'Why don't you go put on that nice black suit you had las' winter?" "Of course!" Mrs. Baxter cried. "I'll go and " "No'm," said Adelia. "You don' need to.
The snuff-brush was brought into more fiercely active commission, but she said nothing till Mary Carmichael was within a few inches of her. Then, shifting the snuff-brush to a position more favorable to enunciation, she said: "Howdy? Ye be Miz Yellett’s gov’ment, ain’t ye?"
Meanwhile the girls had bathed away the stains of their adventure, and after a hearty meal cooked by an over solicitous "Miz Cummins" and served by a frankly envious and inquisitive Lizzie, they felt considerably more like their old self-confident selves. However, they begged not to have to go to bed, as Mrs. Nelson anxiously suggested, until the boys had returned with their horses.
He paused and scratched his head. "Reckon that funny milk coulda done that, Miz Thompson? There ain't no gas made what'll blow up nor burn so funny as that did." Hetty snorted. "Whoever heard of milk blowing up, you old idiot?" A look of doubt spread. "You put all that milk in there?" "No'm, just the one bucket."
"Hello, Miz Austin!" he saluted her with a poor assumption of breeziness. "I was fixin' some harness, but I'm right glad to see you." Alaire regarded him quizzically. "What made you hide?" she asked. "Hide? Who, me?" "I saw you dodge in here like a gopher." Blaze confessed. "I reckon I've got the willies. Every woman I see looks like that dam' dressmaker." "Paloma was telling me about you.
"Who's dose beeg, tall people w'at stan' 'longside of you, Miz Gale?" he called to her; then, shading his eyes elaborately, he cried, in a great voice: "Wall! wal! I b'lieve dat's M'sieu Jean an' Mam'selle Mollee. Ba Gar! Dey get so beeg w'ile I'm gone I don' know dem no more!" The youthful Gales wriggled at this delicious flattery and dug their tiny moccasined toes into the sand.
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