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An' no wonder, with a differ'nt name so's nobody should find out how poor they was an' death an' like enough prison...." Calliope stood up, and in the pause Peleg's axe went rhythmically on. "I'm goin' to be sure," she said. "I hate to but o' course I've got to be rill certain, in words." She went out to the shed, taking with her the photograph, and closed the door. Peleg's axe ceased.
Hence, when it came Peleg's turn to make the journey to the burying-ground in the village hearse, the whole community of Meadowvale was scandalized by the discovery that he had left his girls a comfortable little fortune, enough to keep them in modest wealth. Meadowvale never recovered from this shock.
Joe is old Peleg Glaspell's grandson." John Holly threw up both his hands. "A Stradivarius to old Peleg's grandson! Oh, ye gods!" he muttered. "Well, I'll be " He did not finish his sentence. At another word from Simeon Holly, David had begun to play. From his seat by the stove Simeon Holly watched his son's face and smiled.
An' yet his soul must be sort o' packed away too, to what it would 'a' been if things had 'a' gone differ'nt ... packed away an' tryin' to say somethin'. An' now Delia's come back I b'lieve Abel knows that, an' I b'lieve he sees the soul in her needin' him too, just like it did all that time waitin' to be loosened, gentle, before it can speak; an' meanin' things it can't say, like Peleg's flute.
"I reckon you gals," he said, "would just like to be over to my house where my woman could fry you a mess of flap-jacks. How's that?" "Oh, don't mention it!" groaned Bess. "Is your house near?" asked Nan. "Peleg's the nighest. 'Tain't so fur. And when ye git out on top o' the snow, the top's purty hard. It blew so toward the end of that blizzard that the drifts air packed good."
"How's he going to get the milk to the creamery?" demanded Mr. Carter, shrewdly. Si's eyes twinkled. "That's his part of the contrac'; 'tain't mine," he said. "But if ye ax me, I tell ye honest, Mr. Conductor, I don't see how Peleg's goin' ter do it. This is a sight the heaviest snow we've had for ten year." "What'll you sell that milk for?" interrupted the anxious conductor.
She's some worrited, 'cause Celia went over to visit Peleg's gal airly yesterday mornin' an' we ain't seen Celia since." Mr. Carter came back with one of the brakemen just then, bearing a can of milk. The kindly conductor had found a tin plate, too a section of the fireman's dinner kettle and into this he poured some of the milk for the hungry little spaniel.
"Let's go over to Peleg's in a body," continued the scout leader; "and while he sleeps clean up that dooryard of his so that in the morning he'll just rub his eyes and begin to think the fairies have paid him a visit in the night. And when he learns who did it perhaps he may feel something like you did, William. Don't you see, it'll be rubbing it in good and hard!"
They cyphered it so that they brought out nothin for a remainder. Possible! says I; I thought there was no eend to their puss. I thought it was like Uncle Peleg's musquash hole, and that no soul could ever find the bottom of.
Says she, 'Sam, I do believe you are a born fool, I vow. When father had done larfin', says he, 'I'll tell you, Sam, how it was. They ciphered it so that they brought out nothin' for a remainder. 'Possible! says I; 'I thought there was no eend to their puss. I thought it was like Uncle Peleg's musquash hole, and that no soul could ever find the bottom of.
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