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Mamma says things like forgetting the screwdriver are your ex-eccen-tricks. Is this what you've been thinking about a nice eccen-trick or the other kind?" Jed slowly shook his head. "I I don't know," he groaned. "I dasn't believe There, there! That's enough of my tricks. How's Petunia's hair curlin' this mornin'?"
"I've kept everything ready for you child, since Old Mas' died, and I ain't never stayed offen the place a week at a time I was just visiting out Petunia's way when I heard you'd come, and gittin' a wife to tend to us and back to you quick was the only thing that concerned me.
I could hear the Petunia's happy giggle, answering Jasper's guttural pleasantries, out on the cabin porch behind the row of lilac bushes. I do hope that Petunia gets much and the right sort of courting during this week that Jasper has allowed her!
He went out through the dining-room into the little hall. Barbara, in the big rocker, looked up over Petunia's head at her mother. "Isn't he a funny man, Mamma?" she said. Mrs. Armstrong nodded. "Yes, he certainly is," she admitted. "Yes," the child nodded reflectively. "But I don't believe he's wicked at all. I believe he's real nice, don't you?" "I'm sure he is, dear." "Yes.
Isn't he a funny man, Mamma?" "He is indeed, Babbie." "Yes. Petunia and I think he's he's perfectly scrushe-aking. 'Twas awful nice of him to fix our clock, wasn't it, Mamma." "Yes, dear." "Yes. And I know why he did it; he told me. 'Twas on Petunia's account. He said not to let her know it but he'd taken consider'ble of a shine to her. I think he's taken a shine to me, don't you, Mamma?"
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