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Updated: May 25, 2025
Peg resolved to watch Ethel's career from afar: to write to her constantly: and to keep fresh and green the memory of their mutual regard. At times there would flash through Peg's mind what would her future in America be with her father? Would he be disappointed?
A point worth noting at this time was connected with one window of the parlour. Each afternoon as night shut down, it was Peg's duty to close all the blinds, for colonial windows not being of the tightest, every additional barricade to Boreas was welcome, and this the servant did with exemplary care.
"Not enough," said Louis, and at Aunt Peg's vine-covered lattice 'neath which he stood, we said good-night and turned toward home, while in our hearts lay mirrored, another fadeless picture. How the days of this year flew past us, we were borne along swiftly on their wings, and every week was filled to overflowing with pleasant care and work.
If the woman had tempered her harsh, "Take it, kid," with a smile, the little girl's heart might have ached less. Lafe nodded to her when his wife left the room for a moment. "That biscuit's Peg's bite," said he, "so she'll bark a lot the rest of the day, but don't you mind." When the cobbler was at work again, Virginia, after picking up a few nails and tacks scattered on the floor, sat down.
Then, dusty, penniless, laden with bundles, we bestowed our exhausted bodies and our uplifted hearts in the old buckboard, and turned Peg's head toward the mountains.
"No," he said, smiling up at her, "but there'll be a lot to-morrow.... Is there some bread for for Jinnie, too?" Peggy replied by sticking her fork into a biscuit and pushing it off on Virginia's plate with her finger. Virginia acknowledged it with a shy upward glance. Peg's stolid face and quick, insistent movements filled her with vague discomfort.
"He feels happy," answered Louis; "they are going to have a wedding over at Aunt Peg's, and I am first man." "Yes," said Matthias, "'pears like I kin get married now. Miss Smith, she feels lonesome, and I bother her 'bout my vittles, an' we kin set by one fire jes' as well." "I shall write Aunt Phebe to-morrow, and ask her," I said, laughing.
Gran'ther sniffed the air jubilantly, and exchanged hilarious greetings with the people who constantly overtook old Peg's jogging trot. Between times he regaled me with spicy stories of the hundreds of thousands they seemed no less numerous to me then of county fairs he had attended in his youth. He was horrified to find that I had never been even to one. "'Why, Joey, how old be ye?
I composed my face as well as I could before leaving the 'phone booth; then I sidled across the lobby and slipped out of the side door. I found my way into the stable, where good old Peg was munching in her stall. The fine, homely smell of horseflesh and long-worn harness leather went right to my heart, and while Bock frisked at my knees I laid my head on Peg's neck and cried.
It doesn't pay to give up important things, to be kind and thoughtful in this world nobody appreciates it, and you are sure to be sorry you took the time. When I got up-stairs, after comforting Peggy, my toad had jumped in the water-pitcher and got about drowned he never was the same toad after and if I hadn't stopped in Peg's room to do good it wouldn't have happened. And Dr.
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