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"It's a dear little boy," said the slender lady, who had a pale, kind face, dark eyes, and very red lips. "It'th a practical joke, I shuppothe," said the dark man. "Our gardening friend wanth a liththon: and I'll thee he getth it." "It wasn't his fault," said Dickie, wriggling earnestly in his high chair; "it was my fault. I fell asleep." The girls crowded round him with questions and caresses.
"I wonder who liketh uth tho much that he wanth to knock our headth off?" "Open the other packs," directed Miss Elting calmly. They did so, but with the same results. Each pack was filled with stones, and, in some instances, pieces of wood, parts of limbs of trees, dirt, shale and the like. "Oh, my stars, what a mess!" cried Crazy Jane.
"Kady wanth her to breeve when her packithith." As it was an ingrain misfortune of Dinah's that she could not breathe, she showed no signs of repentance. "Stop!" said Dotty; "she looks faint; it is rheumatism, I think." "O, O, roosum-tizzum! Poo' Dinah!" said Katie. "We must pack her in a wet sheet," said Dotty.
I hateth t' tell you, Tumm, says she, 'what it ith. But all the other maidth hath un, Tumm, an' I wanth one, too. I 'low they ithn't no woman happy without one, Tumm. An' I ithn't never had no chanth afore. No chanth, Tumm, though God knowth they ithn't nothin' I wouldn't do, says she, 't' get what I wanth! I'll wed the fool, says she. 'It ithn't a man I wanth tho much; no, it ithn't a man.
'You're a woman, an' a big one, says he, 'an' that's all I'm askin' for. "She put a finger under his chin an' tipped his face t' the light. "'You ithn't got all your thentheth, ith you? says she. "'Well, says he, 'bein' born on Hollow eve, says he, 'I isn't quite all there. But, says he, 'I wisht I was. An' I can't do no more. "'An' you wanth t' wed me? says she. 'Ith you sure you doth?
'But I ithn't got nothin' t' boatht of. God made me, says she, 'an' I ithn't mad that He done it. I 'low He meant me t' take the firth man that come, an' be content. I 'low I ithn't got no right t' thtick up my nothe at a fool. For, Tumm, says she, 'God made that fool, too. An', Tumm, says she, 'I wanth thomethin' elthe. Oh, I wanth thomethin' elthe!
"'I got mother's ring, says the cook, 't' prove it. "'Tumm, says Liz t' me, 'you ithn't wantin' t' get married, ith you? "'No, Liz, says I. 'Not, says I, 't' you. "'No, says she. 'Not t' me' She took me round the turn in the road. 'Tumm, says she, 'I 'low I'll wed that man. I wanth t' get away from here, says she, lookin' over the hills.
'I wanth t' get t' the Thouthern outporth, where there'th life. They ithn't no life here. An' I'm tho wonderful tired o' all thith! Tumm, says she, 'no man ever afore athked me t' marry un, an' I 'low I better take thith one. He'th on'y a fool, says she, 'but not even a fool ever come courtin' me, an' I 'low nobody but a fool would. On'y a fool, Tumm! says she.
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