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Updated: June 14, 2025
"You've got to see it, or else you can't say you did. So there, Pel Pel whatever your name is." "My name is Peletiah," he said solemnly, "Peletiah oh. dear me!" Rachel put her face between her two hands and began to giggle. "Tell about the funeral," said Ezekiel, twitching her sleeve. "And you must say 'saw," reiterated Peletiah.
It wasn't like giving peppermints to Joel Pepper, and it sent a pang through her at the remembrance, but Peletiah had been good to read those letters. "I'm a-goin' to give you these," she said, beginning to shake therefrom into her hand three big, white peppermints and two red ones. "No, I thank you, ma'am," said Peletiah stiffly, and standing quite still.
King would send many a keen glance at her, and Jasper had hard work not to exclaim, "Oh, Polly, father has got you a " And then he'd pull himself up, and rush off into some great plan to buy Peletiah Henderson something that a Badgertown boy ought to have.
"'Twas Aunt Jerusha," declared Peletiah bluntly, "and I wish she'd go home." "Hush, hush, dear," said his mother, looking up into his face. There was an awful pause, the parson drew a long breath, then he turned to his sister. "Jerusha," he said, "I wish you would go into the sitting-room, if you please." "An' let you pet that beggar child," she exclaimed, in shrill scorn, but she stalked off.
"In his study," answered Peletiah. "Where's that?" "That's where he writes his sermons in, that he preaches at people Sundays," said Ezekiel, finding it very pleasant to be communicative, now that he was quite sure the new girl would not shake him. "Oh, how nice!" breathed Rachel. "That's scrumptious!" "That's what?" asked Peletiah critically. "Scrumptious. Haven't you ever heard that?
"You said you wished you were back there," observed Peletiah severely, fixing his pale eyes on her distressed face, along which the tears were making little paths. "Well, I don't care. I don't want to go. Don't let her!" She seized his arm and shook it smartly. "You're shaking me!" said Peletiah, in astonishment. "I know it, an' I'm goin' to," said Rachel, stamping her foot.
And Joel's face dropped so dismally that she was at her wits' end to know how to straighten out the trouble. Just then one of the Henderson boys came up to the door with a little pat of butter in a dish for Mrs. Pepper. "Here comes Peletiah Henderson," announced Polly, catching sight of him through the window. "Now, p'r'aps he can stop and play with you, Joel."
"Peletiah and Ezekiel ain't ever late. Well, you'll see trouble enough with her, or I'll miss my guess." Peletiah sank down on the upper step of the piazza, but Ezekiel crept into the kitchen, while Rachel pushed boldly up to Mrs. Henderson's chair. "Oh, I'm awful sorry," she said. Her face was very flushed and her eyes glowed with the run.
"Oh, me! oh, my!" exclaimed Grandma, in great sorrow, "that blessed little creeter! to think she's fell and got hurted!" "She ain't little," said Peletiah, who was extremely literal, "she's awful long and bony!" And he could think of no special reason for calling her blessed, but that might be Grandma's fancy.
"There," said Rachel, smoothing down her apron in great satisfaction, "now we can go out. Come on, I'm going to the corner to see that funeral go by." "We can't," said Peletiah, trying his best to hurry after her. "Mother doesn't let us go out of the yard when she's away; and beside, there isn't any corner the road just goes round." "Oh, bother!"
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