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Then, with sudden energy, he advised: "Don't you never let her set you a sewin' patchwork, Kitty Keehoty. It's all on a piece with knittin' mittens for the Hottentots a waste of time. A waste o' sinful time, I mean a sinful waste of Oh, hum!" She waited till he had cooled off from his own vexation, and then asked: "Uncle Moses, will you tell me all about Montgomery's father?"
You never helped anybody do plain sewin' at fifteen cents a hour nor had to borrow money to get a decent dress to be married in. This thing of hearin' how he shot folks and kept a saloon in Texas is good as a movie to you. It don't set so easy on me. I'm old and tough. And I'll thank you to keep your mouths shut. Here's Dammy comin' home Wednesday out of the Navy, and all this piled up on me.
I begun to have hopes that the foolishness was over. And then the tin peddler's widow drifts in to upset the whole calabash. "She made port at Orham fust, this Henrietta Bassett did, and the style she slung killed every female Goliath in the Orham sewin' circle dead.
"Nobody but a man would sew a white button on a white shirt or one that was white once with black thread." He looked at the button and then at her. His anger returned. "You said I wa'n't a man, didn't you?" he demanded. "Yes, I did. But I'll have to take part of it back. You're half a man anyhow; that sewin' proves it." "Huh! I want to know. Well, maybe I ain't a man; maybe I'm only half a one.
"It's 'cause of that the Elbowers call me 'Mend-a-Hole, or 'Take-a-Stitch, whichever happens. Why why I earn money real money sewin' the Lane folks up!" "An' yet bein' that mite of a thing ye are!" returned this new friend, admiringly. "Well then, 'tis out to me sister's husband's cousin's house I'm wishin' ye was this instant.
Purdon had had his stroke of paralysis and they'd lost their farm and she'd taken to goin' out sewin' not but what she was always perfectly satisfied with her bargain. She always acted as though she'd rather have her husband's old shirt stuffed with straw than any other man's whole body. He was a real nice man, I guess, Mr. Purdon was."
Not as I knawed much about it, for I fell on th' back of my head, an' was knocked stupid like. An' when I come to mysen it were mornin', an' I were lyin' on the settle i' Jesse Roantree's house-place, an' 'Liza Roantree was settin' sewin'. I ached all ower, and my mouth were like a limekiln.
"My dear, I'd no more send you away now than I would my Adelaide, for you need looking after for a spell, most as much as she doos. You've been thinkin' and broodin' too much, and sewin' yourself to death. We'll stop all that, and keep you so busy there won't be no time for the hypo.
Norah shrugged her shoulders: "It would be a cold day that'd see anybody makin' me do the cookin' and nursin', and sewin' for a family of four, for five dollars a week!" Myrtella glared at her across the ironing board: "Who said anybody was makin' me? I'm paid to do the cookin' and housework in this house, and if I see fit to light in and boss things 'round a bit, it's my own business.
While Lindy well, in her black sewin' dress and white apron, she looks slimmer and more old maidish than ever. He confines his greetin' to a nod of the head, and stands there gazin' at her as calm as if he was starin' at some stranger in the street. "I suppose you've come to take me away with you, Carlos?" says she. "No," says he. "But I thought," says Lindy, "I I thought some day you might.
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