This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...more of a child than Janey is right now. I don't know what possessed you to say such a thing before her." "Say what?" inquired the innocent Mr. Pettitt. "Oh, you know very well. That about you gittin' fooled in me, for one thing." "Well, didn't I? Didn't you promise the preacher you'd obey me? Well, do you? No ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...more of a child than Janey is right now. I don't know what possessed you to say such a thing before her." "Say what?" inquired the innocent Mr. Pettitt. "Oh, you know very well. That about you gittin' fooled in me, for one thing." "Well, didn't I? Didn't you promise the preacher you'd obey me? Well, do you? No, you don't. Didn't I command you last night to sew that button on my vest? Yes, I did. Is it sewed on? No, it hain't. You don't care if I go round town lookin' like a scarecrow and people pointin' the finger o' scorn at me. I'll bet my second wife won't" "Oh, hush up and gimme that vest. I forgot all about it as slick as a whistle. I'll sew it on now while I think of it. Well, land of love! Did you ever hear the beat o' them two fellows tryin' to cut each other out with two women at once? The idy!" "What I want to know is what Ma Biddle'll do with Augustus. He's gittin' 'most too big now to be stuck with a pin." "I hope she won't come home till he gets married." "Oh, somebody'll write to her before." "Who?" "Who? W'y, anybody. I know fifty that ud ask for nothin' better. I wouldn't put it past you, for one. "ME? Me tell her? W'y, Lester Pettitt, you're the meanest white man that ever lived! W'y, I'd no more think o' doin' such a thing--Go on away from me. Go on, I tell you. I'm mad now. The idy of sayin'--Go way, now-ah. Come a huggin' and kissin' around me after sayin'--Lester-rah! If you do that again, now--I'll--I'll stick you with a pin. Sh! You'll wake up Janey." Somebody did write and tell Mrs. Biddle, and it wasn't Augustus, either. It just goes to show how if you escape Scylla you fall into Charybdis. Be too lax with children, and they run wild and terrify the neighborhood; be too strict with them and they become expert...
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Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 328. 27579 shelf. White-stamped pictorial moss green cloth. A few light scratches on "Home" on upper spine. 1910 gift note FEP w/ 4 penciled names below. Clean text. Solid.
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