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Updated: June 24, 2025
"But there aren't any wood-ladies really, darling," remonstrated Mother. "There is," said Joan. "There's lots. They wanted to keep me but I wouldn't stay. So I comed home, 'cause I was hungry." "But," began Mother. "Where did they take you to?" she asked. "I don't know," said Joan. "The one what I went to speak to gave me her hand and tooked me to where there was more of them.
"You tooked up my Beatrice by the neck, and it hurted her. She told me so. I don't want you for my dollie's nurse, or for my nurse, either." "Your nurse!" exclaimed Cricket. "I wouldn't be 'Liza for anything! I'd as soon take care of a straw in a high wind, as take care of you." Auntie Jean laughed, and drew Cricket down into her arms.
"When yer woman gived ye the two kids," he went on, "I let 'em stay long enough for ye to love 'em; then I stole 'em away. But, if I'd a knowed that ye tooked mine " He moved forward restlessly and almost whispered, "Mister, will ye tell me how the little 'un looked? And were it warm and snuggly? Did ye let it lay ag'in' ye and sleep?"
"I feel something different to what I ever felt before a presentiment of evil, as if something would happen. What could happen to them, Joan?" "Lord bless 'ee! don't ax un what could happen to 'em. Why, a hunderd things: they could be wracked and drowned, or catched and killed, or tooked and hung." Then, bursting into a laugh at Eve's face of horror, she exclaimed, "Pack o' stuff, nonsense!
"As I've never bin in the court, 'cept the time as father tooked me for a treat, to 'ear a murder, which there's no denyin' is as good as a play, 'e bein' 'ung, 'avin' 'it 'is wife over the 'ead with the poker when she weren't lookin', and a-berryin' 'er corpse in a back garding, without even a stone to mark the place, let alone a line from the Psalms and a remuneration of 'er virtues."
And she gave a decided little nod, as if in defiance of some privately urged claim. "Where has your other mamma gone?" I asked, expecting to hear but the one answer. She raised her long lashes and looked at me seriously. "You 're a tourist lady, ain't you? That's why you don't know. Well, it was a tourist man, 'at stayed a long time, who tooked my gone-away mamma away." "A tourist man?
"Well, Massa," said he, "I don't know to a zact sartainty, for I was not dere when she was tooked ill, I was at de bank at de time, but I will take my davy it was hogs or dogs. I wont just zackly sartify which, because she was 'mazin' fond of both; but I will swear it was one or toder, and dat dey was cooked wid dere heads on dat I will stificate to till I die!"
Then he sings out, 'My G , it's too horrible! an' I 'ear 'er a larfin' like to bust, an' then 'e comes to me, and ses, quite wild like, 'Take me out of this 'ell! an' I tooked 'im." "And when you came back?" "She was dead." "Dead?" "As a blessed door-nail," said Sal, cheerfully. "An' I never knowd I was in the room with a corpse," wailed Mother Guttersnipe, waking up.
"My Teddy can't run, even if her eyes can light up," said Sue, making the bear's eyes blink. "My train didn't run away, it was tooken," said Bunny. "And some day I'm going to find the one that tooked it." Bunny did not speak as his school teacher would have had him, but he meant the same thing as if he had spoken correctly. "Well, they sha'n't touch my Teddy bear!" said Sue.
"Cuss 'im!" croaked the old woman in a sympathetic manner, as she took a drink from the broken cup. "I tooked up with a Chinerman," went on her granddaughter, wearily, "an' lived with 'im for a bit it's orful, ain't it?" she said with a dreary laugh, as she saw the disgust on the lawyer's face. "But Chinermen ain't bad; they treat a pore girl a dashed sight better nor a white cove does.
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