Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
And thinks I, Samanthy, 'n' I know the wuth of him a'ready, but there's them that hain't waked up to it yit, namely, Miss Vildy Trypheny Cummins; and as Miss Vildy Trypheny Cummins is that kind o' cattle that can't be drove, but hez to be kind o' coaxed along, mebbe this runnin'-away bizness 'll be the thing that'll fetch her roun' to our way o' thinkin'. Now I wouldn't deceive nobody for a farm down East with a pig on it, but thinks I, there ain't no deceivin' 'bout this.
Rags sat at the head of the dinner-table, and had taken the precaution to get the headless doll on his right, with a view to eating her gingerbread as well as his own, doing no violence to the proprieties in this way, but rather concealing her defects from a carping public. "I tell you sompfin' ittle Mit Vildy Tummins," Gay was saying to her battered offspring.
Land o' liberty! See here, Vildy, we want those children should look respectable the few days they're here. I don't see how we can rig out the boy, but there's those old things of Marthy's in the attic; seems like it might be a blessin' on 'em if we used 'em this way." "I thought of it myself in the night," answered Vilda briefly. "You'll find the key of the trunk in the light stand drawer.
I'm jest lettin' things go the way they've started, 'n' stan'in' to one side to see whar they'll fetch up, kind o' like Providence. I'm leavin' Miss Vildy a free agent, but I'm shapin' circumstances so 's to give her a chance. But, land! if I'd fixed up the thing to suit myself I couldn't 'a' managed it as Timothy hez, 'thout knowin' that he was managin' anything. Look at that letter bizness now!
"He'd be awful handy round the house, though, Vildy; that is, if he is handy, pickin' up chips, 'n' layin' fires, 'n' what not; but, 's you say, he ain't so takin' as the baby at first sight. She's got the same winnin' way with her that Marthy hed!" "Yes," said Miss Vilda grimly; "and I guess it's the devil's own way." "Well, yes, mebbe; 'n' then again mebbe 't ain't.
"You can't do it, and you sha'n't do it!" said Miss Vilda excitedly. "You ain't goin' to make a fool of yourself, if I can help it. We can't have two children clutterin' up this place and eatin' us out of house and home, and that's the end of it." "It ain't the end of it, Vildy Cummins, not by no manner o' means! If we can't keep both of 'em, do you know what I think 'bout it?
"Be they any of your folks, Miss Vildy?" asked Jabe, grinning with delight at Samantha's ill humor. "No," she answered briefly. "What yer cal'latin' ter do with 'em?" "I haven't decided yet. The boy says they haven't got any folks nor any home; and I suppose it's our duty to find a place for 'em.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking