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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Mom Beck's goin' to stay heah with me, too, while mothah an' Papa Jack go down South where the alligatahs live. Then when they get well an' come back, Papa Jack is goin' to build a house on the othah side of the lawn. I'm to live in both places at once; mothah said so." There were music and light, laughing voices and happy hearts in the old home that night.
The floors were carefully scrubbed under the direction of Mom Wallis, and the windows made shining. Then the men spent a day bringing great loads of tree-boughs and filling the place with green fragrance, until the big living-room looked like a woodland bower.
Tanner and slipped back to her guests. She found Gardley making arrangements with Bud to run back to the church and tell the men to leave the buckboard for them, as they would not be home for dinner. While this was going on she took Mom Wallis up to her room to remove her bonnet and smooth her hair.
She looked furtively around as she came out the door, but no minister was in sight, and then she forgot him utterly in the look of bewildered astonishment with which Gardley was regarding Mom Wallis. He had stopped short in his walk across the little yard, and was staring at Mom Wallis, recognition gradually growing in his gaze.
Why do you always go to extremes?" "To please you!" he hollered out from under his blinders. "Jest to please you, mom!" Sez I, "Josiah Allen, you know you did it for fashion, so why lay it off onto me? But," sez I, "if you'll keep still I'll fix it all right." "Keep still!" sez he, "I don't see any prospect of my doin' anything else when I can't see an inch from my nose."
"She ain't never had no Christmas an' the minister he said the order was all boys an' an' she cried, so Mom said bring her anyway in my ol' suit you'd never know, an' an' an' Oh, my gosh!" finished Mike tragically, "Muggs is a girl. Her her name's C-c-c-c-clara!" The Doctor jumped. So did Muggs. The lachrymose explosion came and the drum slipped down from the shoulder of Muggs with a clatter.
As Amanda neared the place she looked ruefully at her knot of wild flowers. "She's got so many pretty ones," she thought. "But, ach, I guess she'll like these here, too, long as they're a present." Two of the Landis children ran to greet Amanda as she opened the gate and entered the yard. "I'll lay my parasol by the gate," she said. "Where's your mom?"
I feel as if I could ride on, and on, and on." The man nodded and pointed upward where the surface of the bench cut the sky-line sharply. "Yes, mom," he answered respectfully. "If yeh'd admire to, we c'n foller the trail to the top an' ride a ways along the rim of the bench. If you like scenes, that ort to be worth while lookin' at.
He could see the shadows of those dreams a beautiful home for Margaret out on the trail she loved, where wildness and beauty and the mountain she called hers were not far away; horses in plenty and a luxurious car when they wanted to take a trip; journeys East as often as they wished; some of the ideal appliances for the school that Margaret loved; a church for the missionary and convenient halls where he could speak at his outlying districts; a trip to the city for Mom Wallis, where she might see a real picture-gallery, her one expressed desire this side of heaven, now that she had taken to reading Browning and had some of it explained to her.
"Let me see once," asked Aunt Rebecca. "Why, that's Amos and your mom." Mrs. Reist smiled and Uncle Amos chuckled. "We're peaches there, ain't? I guess if abody thinks back right you see there were as many crazy styles in olden times as there is now." Tintypes of men and women in peculiar dress of Aunt Rebecca's youth called forth much comment and many questions from the interested Amanda.
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