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It was inhabited by snails, and if accompanied by his grandchildren, he would point to one and tell them the story of the little boy who said: 'Have plummers got leggers, Mother? 'No, sonny. 'Then darned if I haven't been and swallowed a snileybob. And when they skipped and clutched his hand, thinking of the snileybob going down the little boy's 'red lane, his eyes would twinkle.
Ring do' bell. I say, I say: 'Walk right in, Mista Ridgways. Slip me dollah bill dess like that! Mista Sammerses an' Mista Plummers, an' some nem others, they all show class. Look Mista Sammerses' spectickles made turtle back; fancy turtle, too. I ast Miss Julia; she tell me they fancy turtle. Gol' rim spectickles ain't in it; no ma'am!
It was inhabited by snails, and if accompanied by his grandchildren, he would point to one and tell them the story of the little boy who said: 'Have plummers got leggers, Mother? 'No, sonny. 'Then darned if I haven't been and swallowed a snileybob. And when they skipped and clutched his hand, thinking of the snileybob going down the little boy's 'red lane, his eyes would twinkle.
The diary was clutched to Rebecca Mary's little flat breast, and with a swirl of starched Sunday skirts the child was gone. She went straight to Aunt Olivia. Red spots of shame flamed in both sallow little cheeks; resolution sat astride her little uphill nose. She could not bear to go, but it was easier than being ashamed. The pointing fingers of all the Plummers pushed her on.
They worked so steadily and to such good purpose that by half-past four, when Rosemary and Sarah appeared with hot coffee and sandwiches, the most congested area in Plummers Lane was comparatively clear. "Gee, Rosemary, you certainly are all right!" approved Jack as he held the can for her while she ladled out coffee. "I never was so hungry in my life."
Aunt Olivia stiffened into a Plummer again with hurried embarrassment. She did not recognize the voice nor the pleasant young face that followed it through the vines. "It's Rebecca Mary's aunt, isn't it?" The stranger smiled. "I should know it by the family resemblance." "We're both Plummers," Aunt Olivia answered, gravely. "Won't you come up on the porch and take a seat?"
It is the presence on the globe of these Plummers that delays the coming of the Millennium. His stunned mind leaped into sudden activity. He must not be found here, that was certain. Waiters who ramble at large about a feudal castle and are discovered in conversation with the daughter of the house excite comment.
It was inhabited by snails, and if accompanied by his grandchildren, he would point to one and tell them the story of the little boy who said: 'Have plummers got leggers, Mother? 'No, sonny. 'Then darned if I haven't been and swallowed a snileybob. And when they skipped and clutched his hand, thinking of the snileybob going down the little boy's 'red lane, his eyes would twinkle.
"I live next door to Rosemary, and I'll see that she and Sarah get home all right," he said brusquely. "I know all about Plummers Lane, too, Frank." The Student Council president lifted his cap and went back to his car. "I don't like him," said Sarah decidedly. "I shouldn't wonder if he was faintly aware of your dislike," grinned Jack. "Any more coffee left, Rosemary?
The Plummer Place was the Murchison Place in the town's mouth now, and that was only fair; the Murchisons had overstamped the Plummers. It lay about them like a map of their lives: the big horse chestnut stood again in flower to lighten the spring dusk for them, as it had done faithfully for thirty years.
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