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Updated: May 26, 2025
The Cap'n bought this no'count farm an' had this house built on it a proceedin' that, ef I do say it, struck ev'rybody as cur'ous." "It was curious," agreed Mr. Merrick. "But the cur'ous'est thing was thet he didn't make no 'tempt at farmin'. Folks said he had money to burn, fer he loaded it into this fool house an' then sot down an' smoked all day an' looked glum.
Ah done got other things to bother about more'n a worthless, no'count Possum what don' take care of his fam'ly," she said crossly, and hurried into the house to see that the eight little Possums were properly tucked in bed, for it was a cold day, and the eight little Possums had to stay in bed to keep warm. Happy Jack chuckled as he started back to tell Unc' Billy Possum.
"Perhaps it won't seem so 'no'count' when we are better acquainted, Judy. Won't you run along to the house, and change to some dry clothes? You will catch your death of cold if you stand here like this." "How'd you-all know I was Judy?" "Why, Auntie Sue wrote me about you, of course." "An' you knowed me 'cause I'm so all crooked an' ugly, I reckon," came the uncompromising return.
Ain't I clean druv out my wits a-thinkin' ever'thing over, and where in the name of natur' am I goin' to do it all, with them horrid gasoline stoves no bigger'n an old maid's thimble, and Pasqually gone off s'archin' with the rest, and no'count the heft of the time and my sins!"
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