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"'Here, yo', 'sclaim Mars' Colby, we'n he see her. 'Yo' come an' show me all dem one-laiged geese. "'Ya-as, Mars', says Sally Alley, an' she haid right off fo' de goose pon'. Dar was de whole flock roostin' erlong de aidge ob de pon' an' all wid one foot drawed up in deir fedders lak' dat goose roostin' out dar in dat woodshed dis bressed minute!
I'se gittin' tuh dat," declared the old man, chuckling. "Co'se dat Sally Alley say dat, hysterical lak'. She was dat scar't. Mars' Colby scowl at her mo' awful. "'I mak' yo' prove dat to me atter dinner, he say, savage as he kin be. 'Yo'll tak' us all out dar an' show us my one-laiged geese. An' if it ain't so, I'll send yo' to de fiel' oberseer.
He done give one big laff, an' sent Sally Alley off to Aunt Jinny, de housekeeper, tuh cut her off a new kaliker dress pattern. But dem quality folkses sho' was tickled erbout dat one-laiged goose." When Ruth Kenway had an idea a real good idea it usually bore fruit. She had evolved one of her very best that snowy night while she and Agnes and Neale O'Neil were drinking hot chocolate in Mrs.
Dat yaller gal sho' was in a fix. She don' know w'ich way to tu'n. "Das dinner was a-gettin' nearer an' nearer to de en'. Mars' Colby do lak' he say den. He come out an' mak' Sally Alley show de one-laiged geese. "'I has a po'erful min', dat Sally gal say, 'ter go down dar an' chop er laig off'n ebery goose in de yard. "But she didn't hab no min' to do dat," pursued Uncle Rufus. "Naw'm.
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