neppleses

Updated: May 23, 2025

"Katie, you're the only one in the family that has any sense, and sometimes you ain't got enough so's you could notice it without a magnifyin' glass; but even so, you're ahead of the rest of them. Katie, I'm sick an' tired of the Neppleses and the Whistlers and being bossed by the whole endurin' Bates tribe; sick and tired of it, so I just came after you." "Came after me?" repeated Kate stupidly.

Gene Stratton-Porter - A Daughter of the Land