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Then asked mother for more bread and milk; she told them she had no more; then they asked for buttermilk and she gave them what she had of that. As mother was afraid, she gave them anything she had, that they called for. They asked her for whisky; she said she hadn't got it. They said, "Maybe you lie." Then they pointed toward Mr. Pardee's and said, "Neighbor got whisky?"
It was the first time she had taken this stand. "If you go there, and like it, and want to settle down there, I'll come. I know the Bible says, 'Whither thou goest, I will go, but I guess even What'shername would have given up at Oklahoma." For three years, then, Sam Pardee's letters reeked of oil: wells, strikes, gushers, drills, shares, outfits. It was early Oklahoma in the rough.
When the child was born Milly Pardee wanted to name her Myrtle but her husband had said, suddenly, "No, call her Maxine." "After whom?" In Mrs. Pardee's code you named a child "after" someone. He had seen Maxine Elliott in the heyday of her cold, clear, brainless beauty, with her great, slightly protuberant eyes set so far apart, her exquisitely chiselled white nose, and her black black hair.
Traverse's cart, loaded up our things and we were glad to leave our Bark Covered house, clay door-yard and Mr. Pardee's woods, to which we had lived so near, that we could see the sun only for a short time in the afternoon. In the house we were leaving we had some unwelcome visitors, an Indian, John Williams, and a snake.
Only decent meals we had in Egypt was a place in Cairo called Pardee's, run by a woman whose husband's left her or died, or something. Real home-loving woman she was. Such cooking.... Why, that's so! Your name's Pardee, too, isn't it! Well, I always say to Mr. Tannenbaum, it's a small world, after all. No relation, of course?" "Of course not." How suddenly safe Oklahoma seemed. And Arnold Hatch.
"Well uh" hesitatingly "very nice, but why don't you have something native ... Decorations and ... Peacock grill is New York, not Okla " "Z'that so! Well, let me tell you you won't find any better food or service in any restaurant, New York or I don't care where. But say, hotel meals are hotel meals. You get tired of 'em. Ever eat at Pardee's, up the street? Say, there's food!
Real terror leaped into Milly Pardee's eyes. "Not Oklahoma. Sam, I couldn't stand " Suddenly she stiffened with resolve. Maxine's report card had boasted three stars that week. Oklahoma! Why, there probably were no schools at all in Oklahoma. "I won't bring my child up in Oklahoma. Indians, that's what! Scalped in our beds." Above Sam Pardee's roar sounded Maxine's excited treble. "Oo, Oklahoma!
In one week he had them ready, and men came from Dearbornville to help him raise them. He then cut black ash trees, peeled off the bark to roof his house, and after having passed two weeks under Mr. Pardee's hospitable roof, we moved into a house of our own, had a farm of our own and owed no one. Father brought his axe from York State; it weighed seven pounds; he gave me a smaller one.
Thompson came, and we were soon all aboard the wagon. When we reached Mr. Pardee's his family seemed very much pleased to see us. He said: "Now we have 'Old Put' here, we'll have company." Putnam county joined the county he came from, and he called father "Old Put" because he came from Putnam county. Father immediately commenced cutting logs for a house.
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