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Updated: July 10, 2025
"If someone would fill your stockings with milk and bread and " "I want a turkey," said the oldest girl. "And cranberry sauce," added the boy. "I want a doll-baby in mine," said the littlest girl. The mother hid her face and groaned aloud. "You ain't sick, are you, Mommy?" "I guess so. Come, you'd better say your prayers and go to bed.
"'T would be monstrous delightsome to be run off with, of course; but " "But what?" "Well I Mommy told me that in the province no maid could be lawfully wed without her parents' consent." "True," assented the tempter, "if she wed where the colony law holds good. But we'll get round that by having the knot tied on royal ground." "Not in England?" said the girl, drawing back a little.
Mommy doesn't like Bobby very much and when I am bad she makes Bobby go outdoors even when it's cold outside. Mommy says I shouldn't play with Bobby so much because after all Bobby is only a dog but I like Bobby. Everyone else is so big, and when mommy and daddy are home all I can see is their legs unless I look way up high, and when I do something bad I'm scared because they're so big and strong.
I don't see how mommy can be saying one thing out loud and something else inside her head at the same time but when I look at her she puts me down and says she's busy and will I get out from underfoot, and then pretty soon I do something that makes her angry and she makes me go to my room or she spanks me. Bobby doesn't like this.
"I don 't want to marry any one," cried the girl, beginning to sob. "A stiff-necked child thou art," said her mother, sternly. "Dost hear me?" "Yes, mommy," responded a woful voice. "And dost intend to be obedient?" "Yes, mommy," sobbed the girl. "Then if thee'll not give her to the parson, Lambert, 't is best that she marry Philemon. She needs a husband to rule and chasten her."
Before the one who hid the book had time to rise, a woman of fifty entered the room, and after a glance, cried "Janice Meredith! How often have I told thee that it is ungenteel for a female to repose on the floor?" "Very often, mommy," said Janice, rising meekly, meantime casting a quick glance at the bed, to see how far its smoothness had been disturbed.
She screamed and she said Jimmy you come in the house this minute and leave that nasty dog outdoors and I said I won't come, I hate you. Then mommy said Jimmy! You wicked, ugly little monster, and I said I don't care, when I get big I'm going to hurt you and throw you in the wood shed and lock you in until you die and make you eat coconut pudding and Bobby hates you too.
"If you 'ain't got ambitions for yourself, Ruby, think once of me and this long dream I been dreaming for us." "Yes, ma. Yes." "Ruby, Ruby, and I always thought when you was so glad for Atlantic City, it was for Vetsburg; to show him how much you liked his folks. How could I know it was ." "I never thought, mommy. Why why, Vetsy he's just like a relation or something."
I knew that wasn't true because mommy likes to punish me but I didn't dare say that to daddy. Daddy isn't afraid of me the way mommy is and he is nice to me most times, so I said all right if you say so. Daddy said fine, will you promise to be nice to mommy from now on? I said yes if mommy won't hit Bobby any more with the broom.
An hour ticked past, and two damp pools had formed on her pillow. "Asleep yet, baby?" "Almost, ma." "Are you all right?" "Fine." "You you ain't mad at mama?" "'Course not, dearie." "I thought it sounded like you was crying." "Why, mommy, 'course not! Turn over now and go to sleep." Another hour, and suddenly Mrs.
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