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"Well, you've got to have it jest the same! When you bile potaters, don't you let 'em run over onto the stove. Now you remember! I've had to let the fire go down here, an' scrub till I could ha' cried. Don't you never do such a thing ag'in, wherever you be!" He could only look at her. This sort of woman was entirely new to his experience.
"Why, some I tuk back to Mis' Bell for what I borrered befo' I'm always most careful to make return for what I borrers and yo' know, Mis' Warden, dat waffles and sweet potaters and cohn bread dey do take butter; to say nothin' o' them little cakes you all likes so well an' de fried chicken, an' " "Never mind, Sukey; you go and present my compliments to Mrs.
As I say in my celebrated rhyme on "Greatness": The greatest man in all the world, by far the greatest one, Is he who goes ahead and does what no one else has done. But he must be the first if he would rank as some "potaters," For those who follow after him are merely imitators. "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the Bellows. "You are a great chap, Pokey you, with your poetry.
I didn't have no potaters to-day, I was in a kind of a hurry, but I guess you can make out with bread." He took the chair and watched her while she set on the spider again and warmed her savory dish. Ann filled the kettle at the same time. She judged that he might like a cup of tea, and told herself she would sit down and take it with him.
"'Tis fine, I like un wonderful fine," Eli volunteered presently, adding, "if she didn't burn so bad." "Take just a bit at a time," advised Thomas, laughing heartily, "and eat un with bread or potaters and you won't notice the burn of un."
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