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Uncle Peter looked round arter her, an' then he says to Albert, 'I dunno 's I rightly remember who that is!" The parson uncrossed his legs and crossed them the other way. The old lady began to seem to him a thought too discursive, if not hilarious. "I know so many of the people in the various parishes" he began, but he was interrupted without compunction. "You never'd know me. I'm from out West.
Bet your life. Howsomever, these are only small details. My main proof that the number thirteen ain't any better than it orter be lies in the fact that one day I married the thirteenth in Mrs. Scraggs. If I'd never'd hearn of such a thing I'd know'd thirteen was no good from that time on. This ain't to cast reflections on the other Mrs. Scraggses, neither.
The next morning, drawn by some subtle power, she went over to Susan's, and after sitting awhile on the doorstep, they slipped upstairs into the front chamber, and opened drawer after drawer of fine white clothing, wonderfully trimmed. "Long-cloth!" said Susan, in a whisper. "Here's some unbleached. We had it on the grass last year; seemed as if it never'd whiten out. That's for every day."
With that she hopped off down the little steps to look through the big crack in the old door of the provision room. "Why where " she started back and rubbed her eyes, and stared again. "Oh! Davie," she screamed. Then she clapped her hands over her mouth. "It never'd do to scare him," she said. And she opened the provision room door and rushed in.
If she was thirty year old, or five-an'-thirty or more, and never'd had a chance to be married, and if one o' them artful creturs you was talkin' of got hold of her, then, to be sure, why, dear me! law!
There never was a brighter night than this, I reckon you'll agree with me, Felix; and yet look at that stump not a stone's throw away; you couldn't say now whether it was a cow lying down, a horse, a rock, or a stump, which last I take the thing to be. Am I right about that." "Why, sure's I live, that ere is a fact, Andy," replied the other; "but I never'd a thought it.
"I jes never'd seen my papa once any more, 'f she hadn't finded me in the woods; and he said I ought to love her jes as much more as ever I could, and I do," accompanying the assertion with a loving clasp of Kittie's arm, the suddenness of which sent her apple spinning across the floor. "There, see; I'll get it," she cried, running after it, with a triumphant glance at Kat.
Amanda sat looking at them in unbelief and misery. "O my!" she whispered, at length, "what a world this is! Ma'am, did you tell him he might have 'em?" "I dunno what Jonathan'll do without that clock," moaned the old lady. "I see it carried off myself." "Did you tell him he might?" cried Amanda, loudly. "I dunno but I did, but I never'd ha' thought he'd ha' done it.
Got it swore to by him, with the justice o' the peace's name signed, an' two witnissis, an' the judge's red seal on top o' that. Could I go back an' show that paper'n tell how 'twas? Too late! George was dead. I couldn't go. My folks a'most disowned me when I took him. I said then I never'd step my foot into their doors. Them that gives me the col' shoulder once don't do it no more.
An' yet I told Charlie 'fore they went I never'd say I was tired again in all my born days, only let me get rid of 'em this time." "How'd you manage with 'em this season?" asked Mrs. Pray, as if her question concerned the importation of some alien plant. Caddie opened her eyes and came to a posture more adapted to sustaining her end of the conversational burden.
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