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And you haven't answered me whether you said that dreadful thing he says you did." "Well " said Georgie. "Anyway, he said somep'm' to me that made me mad." And upon this point he offered no further details; he would not explain to his mother that what had made him "mad" was Mr.
"I was just thinkin' a minute. I want to tell you about somep'm." "Finish your prayers first, Jane." Jane obeyed with a swiftness in which there was no intentional irreverence. Then she jumped into bed and began a fresh revelation. "It's about papa's clo'es, mamma." "What clothes of papa's? What do you mean, Jane?" asked Mrs. Baxter, puzzled. "The ones you couldn't find.
Genesis, "an' de right one, she kine o' tricksy, too. Tell black man f'um white man, little f'um big." "I'd hate it if he was papa," said Jane, confidentially. "He's always cross about somep'm, because he's in love." She approached her mouth to her whittling friend's ear and continued in a whisper: "He's in love of Miss Pratt. She's out walkin' with Joe Bullitt.
Parcher gazed fixedly at the wonderful child, and something like a ray of sunshine flickered over his seamed and harried face. "Are you SURE he isn't?" he said. "What makes you think so?" "I know he isn't," said demure Jane. "It's on account of somep'm I told mamma." And upon this a gentle glow began to radiate throughout Mr. Parcher.
"I bet," said Georgie emphatically, "I bet if he wanted to see any of 'em, he'd haf to go around to the side door!" "No, dear, they " "Yes, they would, mamma! So what does it matter if I did say somep'm' to him he didn't like? That kind o' people, I don't see why you can't say anything you want to, to 'em!" "No, Georgie.
He said Willie an' Johnnie Watson an' Joe Bullitt an' Miss Pratt were always arguin' somep'm about love, an' he said Willie was the worst. Mamma, he said he didn't like the rest of it, but he said he guessed he could stand it if it wasn't for Willie. An' he said the reason they were all so in love of Miss Pratt was because she talks baby-talk, an' he said he couldn't stand much more baby-talk.
You' grampaw say he goin' be fix fer him, if he do." "Yes, that was while he was standing there," said Florence ruefully. "He heard all that, too." "Miss Julia, she s'picion' he done hear somep'm 'nother, I guess," Kitty Silver went on.
Well, this lumber-yard man got into some sort of a fuss because he bought millions an' millions of shingles, mamma, that had too many knots in, an' the man don't want to pay for 'em, or else the store where he bought 'em won't take 'em back, an' they got to prove how many shingles are bad shingles, or somep'm, an' anyway, mamma, that's what Willie's doin'. Every time he comes to a bad shingle, mamma, he puts it somewheres else, or somep'm like that, mamma, an' every time he's put a thousand bad shingles in this other place they give him six cents.
They were forced to devote several minutes to intense concentration, for if such an order had been given there must have been a reason for it. "Somep'm 'bouta coat," suggested the taxi-man. That was it. Peter's overcoat and hat. He had left them at Delmonico's. Having decided this, they disembarked from the taxi and strolled toward the entrance arm in arm. "Hey!" said the taxi-driver. "Huh?"
Soon as she saw who I was, she said, 'Why, it's our little sister! Only she said it that way she talks sort of foolish. 'It's our ittle sissy' somep'm like that, mamma. She said it twice an' told me to go home an' get washed up. An' Miss Pratt told Willie Miss Pratt said, 'It isn't mamma's fault Jane's so dirty, just like that. She " "Are you sure she said 'our little sister'?" said Mrs. Baxter.
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