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Updated: June 27, 2025
She had to sit in the seat with two other little girls who bitterly resented the intrusion. "You oughtn't to be in this grade anyhow!" declared one of them. "A girl ought to be in the primer that turns her letters the wrong way." "Well, my letters spell the words right," said Nance hotly, "an' that's more'n yours do, Pie-Face!"
"He sleeps most of his watch, and we can talk a streak." How we did talk that night! Sleep was farthest from our eyes. Pie-Face Jones was a mean and bitter man, despite his fatness; but we blessed that fatness because it persuaded to stolen snatches of slumber. Nevertheless our incessant tapping bothered his sleep and irritated him so that he reprimanded us repeatedly.
They stared at him incredulously. Then Carson's dry cackle led the laughter. "You're the biggest liar, Bud Lee," said the old man good-naturedly, "I ever focussed my two eyes on. I'll lay an even bet there ain't nobody showed a-tall up this morning." "You, Tommy," said Lee to the boy at his side, "shovel your grub down lively and go hitch Molly and old Pie-face to the buckboard.
I knew that pie-face over at her school would queer the whole show. Say, Uncle Ath, I'd just like to put one over on her for fair. What did she do to Bev, anyhow?" "She never! What, told her she lied!" Athol very nearly kicked over the little phone stand. "And Bev wouldn't stand for it and lit out? Snappy work! I say, Uncle Ath, let me come home, please, and hear all about it.
Gordon picked up the gun that had fallen out of the holster as the man fell and put it into his pouch. He considered the two, and decided they would be no menace. "Okay, Sheila," he called out, trying to muffle his voice. "We got them all." "Pie-Face?" Her voice was doubtful. He considered what a man out here who went under that name might be like. "Sure, baby. Open up!" "Wait a minute.
Solitary was our tomb, in which, on occasion, we talked with our knuckles like spirits rapping at a seance. News? Such little things were news to us. A change of bakers we could tell it by our bread. What made Pie-face Jones lay off a week? Was it vacation or sickness? Why was Wilson, on the night shift for only ten days, transferred elsewhere? Where did Smith get that black eye?
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