This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...Bet she'll marry some scalawag from Kansas City who wears pearl buttons on his shoes and enlarges photographs. Bob McElravy was too good for her, he was. And he used to carry her books home from school and licked the stuffing out of that Rouse boy because he said she had red hair. What's getting into ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...Bet she'll marry some scalawag from Kansas City who wears pearl buttons on his shoes and enlarges photographs. Bob McElravy was too good for her, he was. And he used to carry her books home from school and licked the stuffing out of that Rouse boy because he said she had red hair. What's getting into the young people nowadays?--they never know who's meant for them any more. There's Mrs. Upshear sitting in the window writing like she always is, keeping a diary, thinking that her husband'll come back some day. Come back some day in spite of what they all say, and she couldn't never remember everything to tell him, and maybe if he came back too late--sitting there with the shawl around her and everybody else fanning--he'd find the diary and understand. If the cherries weren't all gone he must send over a bucketful. She'd take them in her thin trembling hands, thank him soft like and look around the bare room for something to give him; then beg him to sit down and rest a while, and pinching her old faded skirt between her fingers, lead up to it so she could ask if he thought William would be back before the Yellow Grimes were all gone? You know it's fourteen years, just about now when the cherries are getting red. Do you suppose William'U think I'm much older? He wouldn't say so if he did--just spread his fingers out on my hair and kiss in between them Nobody must see him until he got home and found Hulda. About this time of the evening she would be sprinkling down the clothes or sitting beside the red lamp on the yellow cracked table reading her good night chapter. Nobody could keep house the way Hulda could; everything just like it had come out of a store. You could come to call any time you wanted to and she wouldn't have to run ahead...
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