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Updated: May 19, 2025
Seems if she'll be dreadful lonesome without me all summer. I'm her own folks and I I believe I shall go home with her after all, 'stead of into the mountains to that ranch with the Gray Lady." Alfaretta gave a vigorous tug to the shawl-strap she was fastening about a curious assortment of her personal belongings and answered: "That's enough of your 'seems-if-ing, Dolly Doodles!
It was early on the third morning that the train, puffing and shrieking, ran into the Springfield depot. Other trains stood waiting; and there was such a chorus of snorts and whistles, and such clouds of smoke, that Katy was half frightened. "Do you suppose she is here already?" asked Katy, tucking the railway guide into the shawl-strap, and closing her bag with a snap.
One arm caught the post and he circled around it a few times, and then he let go and began to fall, and, sir, he kept falling all across the room, and everybody got out of the way, except a girl, and Pa grabbed her by the polonaise, like a drowning man grabs at straws, though there wasn't any straws in her polonaise as I know of, but Pa just pulled her along as though she was done up in a shawl-strap, and his feet went out from under him and he struck on his shoulders and kept a going, with the girl dragging along like a bundle of clothes."
This detail, at first glance, appeared to be a smart leather piping. On second glance it seemed a sort of shawl-strap contrivance by which the talking-machine was suspended. But in the end she knew what it was a leather harness! an exceedingly handsome, silver-buckled, hand-sewed harness!
"You must have changed a great deal if you can do that," he declared, as he handed down a roll of rugs strapped with a shawl-strap. "I have changed a great deal." "I don't see it. I can't see that you've changed at all essentially." "Oh, but it's essentially that I am changed. Superficially I may be more or less the same a little older; but within I'm another woman."
There was a very stout lady with a canvas extension case and an umbrella in one hand and a bulging shawl-strap and a pasteboard box in the other, who panted and wheezed like the locomotive itself and who asked the brakeman, "What on airth DO they have such high steps for?"
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