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Updated: May 3, 2025
Folks ought to slide down hill more'n they do. It isn't a good idea to be always climbing." "'Fraid we couldn't stan' it," said Miss S'mantha, tentatively. Under all her man-fear and suspicion lay a furtive recklessness. "Y, no!" the other whispered, laughing silently. The pervading silence of that house came flooding in between sentences.
"Do you know of anything for indigestion?" said Miss S'mantha, charging her sickly voice with a firmness calculated to discourage any undue familiarity. "Just the thing a sure cure!" said he, emphatically. "Come high?" she inquired. "No, it's cheap and plenty." "Where do you send?" "Oh!" said he; "you will have to go after it." "What is it called ?"
"If he wa'n't too partic'lar," said Miss Letitia, who had been laughing at this maiden fear of her sister. "If he would mind his business, we we might take him for one week," said Miss S'mantha. She glanced inquiringly at her sister. Letitia and S'mantha Tower, "the two old maids," had but one near relative Ezra Tower, a brother of the same neighbourhood.
Tunk shied off and began to build a fire; Miss S'mantha sat down weeping, the girl ran away in the darkness, and Trove put the baby in Miss Letitia's arms. "I'll run over to Leblanc's cabin," said he, getting his cap and coat. "They're having trouble over there." He left them and hurried off on his way to the little cabin. Loud cries of the baby rang in that abode of silence.
And as he went to his room, he heard Miss S'mantha say to her sister, "I'm thankful it's not a boy, anyway." A Day of Difficulties All were in their seats and the teacher had called a class. Carlt Homer came in. "You're ten minutes late," said the teacher. "I have fifteen cows to milk," the boy answered. "Where do you live?" "'Bout a mile from here, on the Beach Plains."
His kindly manner and plentiful good spirits had begun to warm and cheer them. Miss S'mantha even cherished a secret resolve to slide if the chance came. After tea Sidney Trove, against their protest, began to help with the dishes. Miss S'mantha prudently managed to keep the stove between him and her. A fire and candles were burning in the parlour.
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