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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Wal, I'll tell ye what I did," said Uncle Solon, his homely face puckering in a reminiscent smile. "I went out airly in the mornin', before I turned my cows to parster, and picked up the acorns under all the oak-trees. I sot down on a rock, took a hammer and cracked them green acorns, cracked 'em 'bout halfway open at the butt end.
Oncle Jazon winked conceitedly and sighted along his rudimentary ramrod to see if it was straight; then puckering his lips, as if on the point of whistling, made an affirmative noise quite impossible to spell. "Well, I'm glad you are acquainted with Kenton," said Beverley. "Where did you and he come together?"
His armchair was upset. The books had tumbled out on the floor: he scrunched a piece of glass under his boot. He groped for the matches, and found a box on a shelf with a deep ledge. He struck one, and puckering the corners of his eyes, held out the little flame towards the barometer whose glittering top of glass and metals nodded at him continuously.
"Then you shall have it," said the lady, as she trilled out a little tune by whistling until it sounded like a bird in the lilac bush. "Have you any apples?" she asked, puckering up her lips. "Yes!" exclaimed Flop. "Here they are!" and he brought out a basketful.
"I trust that she will yet see it," said Miss Harriet Eustace. Harriet Eustace was tall, dull skinned and wide mouthed, and she had a fashion, because she had been told from childhood that her mouth was wide, of constantly puckering it as if she were eating alum. "I shall be of course pleased to show Mrs. Edes my collection at any time," said Von Rosen politely.
'Well, I don't know, he answered, a smile puckering his face, 'but perhaps they should wait until I'm gone. They might want to pull it down again, if I did not behave all right. Now, that would hurt my feelings. One to whom the beyond is near, who has the kindled vision, probably best sees the life he has lived, in the beginnings child, boy, and youth. There are no smudges on that mirror.
He proceeds to show me his infernal tie-holders. "They prevent the tie puckering," he says with his eye on mine. It's no good. "How much?" I say. This whets him to further outrage. "Look here, my man!" I say at last, goaded to it, "I came here for gloves. After endless difficulties I at last induced you to let me have gloves.
But if, on the other hand, it come into a man's possession accompanied by a pure unselfish motive that controls, it comes the nearest to omnipotence of anything we handle. Gold of itself seems to have the puckering quality of a green persimmon. The green fruit will contract the mouth to its smallest proportions. And unmellowed gold acts in the same way upon the mouth of the pocket.
"Well, I don't!" cried Ellen. "I just enjoy being real spiteful sometimes especially when another girl gobbles all the men in sight; and I know I'm prettier than she is. It's just because she's new and and stylish and rich. What made you give in about your furniture, Fan?" "Because I " Fanny stopped short, puckering her forehead.
W'y, sure! They ain't no women around here. I got him off a cowman over on the Verde. He had a whole litter of 'em used to pinch Tom's tail to make him fight so when I come away I jest quietly slipped Mr. Tommy into my shaps." "Oh, the poor little thing," said Kitty; and then she added, puckering up her lips, "but I don't like cats."
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