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Updated: May 17, 2025
Ye see I was tidyin' up yer room, and yer brush dropped down behind the bureau; and when I pushed it out from the wall I found this under the edge of the carpet. Ye better keep these little things in the drawer." Her hand was in the capacious pocket of her apron as she spoke, her plump fingers feeling about its depths. "Oh, here it is," she cried.
"Against whom, may I ask?" "Against the child's father," Hadria replied shortly. "Yes, mum, I see un go up to the churchyard. He's tidyin' up the place a bit for the weddin'." "The wedding?" repeated Hadria vaguely. Mrs. Gullick looked at her as at one whose claims to complete possession of the faculties there seems sad reason to doubt. "Oh, Miss Jordan's, yes. When is it?"
"Yuh better go and lay in yuah hammock, dearie," she suggested to Grace, "an' rest up a bit; I got a lot o' tidyin' up to do yeah." The room was already painfully clean and the man on the bed knit his brows quizzically. "I do want my hair curled 'n' my mustache waxed 'n' some ody-kolone on my hank-chy," he murmured plaintively. "I shore do!"
'Never mind, said Hector, 'Aunt Mattie won't let us be teased any more. We was tidyin' the cupboard, he went on; 'it wanted tidyin' awful bad. Hec was that very uncommon thing, a neat little boy. So Mrs. Mattie and her nephew were as good as alone. 'Pat, she began again, 'why are you so surly to me? Pat got red and mumbled something about 'not meaning.
You're nothin' but a piece o' God's work that wants doin' over like a back yard or a poor piece o' road or a rubbish place, or sim'lar. An' this tidyin' up is what we're for, as I see it only some of us lays a-holt of our own settin' rooms an' butt'ry cupboards an' sullars an' cleans away on them for dear life, over an' over, an' forgets the rest.
"Anyhow, the next town we strikes, Toledo, he quits me and gets a sort of chambermaid's job tidyin' up around a little old boiler-factory and machine-shop; pilin' scrap-iron and pig-iron and little things like that. And he stuck, too. "A couple of years after that I was beatin' it on a rattler goin' west, and I drops off at that town. About the first thing I seen was Toledo comin' down the street.
Lathrop, as you know to your cost, for if I had been I'd of been over here two days a week tidyin' up out of pure friendship, for the last twenty years. But no, I ain't like that never was an' never will be an' I ain't one to go pitchin' my life hither an' yon an' dancin' wildly first on one leg an' then the other from dawn to dusk for other people.
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