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Updated: June 8, 2025
"I ain't none shore thar ain't some bottom to them bluffs which Cherokee an' Texas puts up about Providence stockin' a deck your way, an' makin' good them gifts. At least, thar's times when it looks like it a heap. An' what I'll now relate shows it. "One time Cherokee has it sunk deep in his bosom to he'p a gent named Ellis to somethin' like a yellow stack, so he can pull his freight for home.
Slogan, sez she, 'I believe sister's friz in 'er bed, ur dropped off sudden, fer as shore as yore a-smokin' in that cheer, thar ain't a speck o' fire in 'er chimney. Well, I wus in my stockin' feet, like I ginerally am when I want to take it easy before a fire on a cold day, an' I slid my feet into my shoes as quick as I could an' went out an' took a look.
"Well," said Captain Eli, "she could that is, it doesn't make any difference to me one way or the other she might stay all night at whatever house we kept Christmas in, and then you and me might spend the night in the other house, and then she could be ready there to help the child in the mornin', when she came to look at her stockin'." Captain Cephas fixed upon his friend an earnest glare.
They paid pap th' money last night, an' made 'im promise t' give possession 'fore t'morrow night. Three hundred dollars! Th' old woman took it out of 'er stockin'." "Three hundred dollars!" Lizzie Farnshaw repeated, whirling her horse about suddenly at the mention of a sum of money which ran into hundreds. She looked at the boy enviously.
Her voice was persistently rising and at the same time growing throaty. "The only shoes I got. Me. Your wife. Ain't you ashamed? Where are my three pairs? Look at that stockin'." Speech failed her, and she sat down suddenly on a chair at the table, glaring unutterable malevolence and misery.
Celestine 'ere she pull aff your beeg Dutch stockin'. Dey no belong you, sure. Colette, push heem chair near for de lady. Hippolyte, put couple steeks now on ze fire. Mees, I 'ope you mak' yourself to home now. Monsieur Hugo, you stop for to h'eat a bite vid us. Ve haf' in de shed still one big quarter from de orignal, de beeg mose vat my man he shoot two veeks ago.
All the horizon of this poor little feminine Ishmael seemed to her bitter fancy to be darkened with hands against her, and she sat on a constant watch-tower of suspicion. "Elmira," said she, "bring me that stockin'."
Lemme tell you, Val Peyson I ain't goin' to call you by his name no more, the dirty cur! I've been packin' that money in my stockin' for six months, jest so'st to have it handy when you wanted it. Divorces cost more'n marriage licenses, as you'll find out when you git started. And " "You why, the idea!" Val pursed her lips with something like her old spirit.
She was sittin' horn-idle, an' I said to her, 'D'ye niver tak' up a stockin'? and she says, 'I dinna need to dae naething. 'But, I says, 'a stockin' keeps your hands busy, an' keeps ye frae wearyin', but she juist said, 'I tell ye I dinna need to dae naething.
Her two girl cousins came romping into the bedroom. They had been having a hilarious evening. "Hello, Mary!" they cried. "We heard about your great find!" "Playing with your old doll, are you? Goin' to hang up her stockin' and see if Santa Claus will fill it?" "Huh! Santa Claus won't come to this house, I guess!" Mary had almost forgotten that it was Christmas Eve.
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