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It served the widow right, he maintained, because she had wasted so much labor on the thing. "Bought good new Merrimac print, she did, an' then set there o' nights a snip-snip-snippin' it up into little scraps an' sewin' 'em together again. If a woman'll do that, it's proof what sort o' brains she's got."
He laughed some more 't that, 'n' said 't I didn't seem to be aware 't he owned a mortgage on the Jones farm 'n' got all 't it raised now 'n' would get the whole thing in less 'n two years." Mrs. Lathrop stopped chewing. "They was sayin' in the Sewin' Society 's he's goin' to marry Eliza Gr " she said mildly. Miss Clegg almost screamed. "Eliza Gringer, as keeps house for him?" Her friend nodded.
But, of course, she couldn't refuse to sew for her, and at what she wuz sot at, though she must have known and felt that Miss Charnick wuz lavish in dresses. She had 42 calico dresses, and everybody knew it, new ones, besides woosted. But, anyway, there she was a sewin' when the word came that the world was a comin' to a end on the 30th day of June, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Why in Heaven’s name don’t you say suthin’? Anythin’? Anythin’ but nothin’, that is." "He’s mowin’," Lucinda shrieked. "Sewin’!" exclaimed Aunt Mary. "What’s he sewin’? Where’s he sewin’? Have you stopped doin’ his darnin’?" Lucinda gathered breath by compressing her sides with her hands, and then replied, directing her voice right into the ear-trumpet: "He’s mowin’ the back lawn."
"You see, the Bakers was tenants of old Squire Elrod's, and after Milly's father died o' consumption the old Squire jest let 'em live on the same as before. Mis' Elrod give 'em quiltin' and sewin' to do, and they had their little gyarden, and managed to git along well enough. Some folks called 'em pore white trash.
"Yes, I could do that," assured Amarilly eagerly. "Is thar a Saturday arternoon school?" "Yes," replied the man. "There is a church guild, St. Mark's, that has a school. My little gal goes. She larns sewin' and singin' and waitin' on table and such like. You'd better go with her to-morrow."
"And why in the name of conscience don't you get a thimble, Jonathan? The idea of your stickin' the needle in, and then pressin' it against the chair to make it go through. If that 'aint just like a helpless man, I wouldn't say." "Well, of course sewin' 'aint just a man's business, anyway; and when he has just got to do it " "Why don't you let Mary McGuire do it for you?
He put his brush into the pail and insisted on my coming to the house, because "the old woman," his wife, would want to hear "all the sewin' circle news." "It's the biggest hardship of her life," said Ben, "that she has to miss sewin' circle when the bay ices in. Soon's it clears she's at me to row her acrost to the meetin's.
'I'm keepin' a sewin' school, an' my scholar has made three dresses. What do you think o' that, says she, 'for an old maid's child? I've taken a class in Sunday-school, says Jane, 'an' think o' renewin' my youth an' goin' to the picnic with Rebecca, says she; an' mother declares she never see her look so young 'n' happy."
We fell in on the foc'sle, leavin' a large open space by the capstan, where our sail-maker was sittin' sewin' broken firebars into the foot of an old 'ammick. 'E looked like a corpse, an' Mucky had another fit o' hysterics, an' you could 'ear us breathin' 'ard. It beat anythin' in the theatrical line that even us Archimandrites had done an' we was the ship you could trust.
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