Excerpt: ...is in on my bureau." When finally Enoch presented himself, ready for his fate, she was able to set the mush pudding, done to a fine brown, before him, and her tone was really tender as she said: "This ain't very hearty ef you're hungry; but you can eat it all. There ain't no interference in it with anything you've took." The pudding was one of Enoch's favorite dishes, but as he broke its brown surface with his spoon he felt like a hypocrite. He took one long breath, and then he blurted: "By-the-way, wife, this ...
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Excerpt: ...is in on my bureau." When finally Enoch presented himself, ready for his fate, she was able to set the mush pudding, done to a fine brown, before him, and her tone was really tender as she said: "This ain't very hearty ef you're hungry; but you can eat it all. There ain't no interference in it with anything you've took." The pudding was one of Enoch's favorite dishes, but as he broke its brown surface with his spoon he felt like a hypocrite. He took one long breath, and then he blurted: "By-the-way, wife, this reminds me, I reckon you'll haf to fetch me another o' them pills. I dropped that one out in the grass--that is, ef you think I still stand in need of it. I feel consider'ble better'n I did when I come in this evenin'." The good woman eyed him suspiciously a minute. Then her eyes fell upon the words "ABOVE RUBIES" lying upon the table. Reaching over, she lifted the pudding-bowl aside, took the dish of fried chicken from its sub-station, and set it before her lord. "Better save that pudd'n' for dessert, honey, an' help yo'self to some o' that chicken, an' take a potater an' a roll, and eat a couple o' them spring onions--they're the first we've had. Sence you're a-feelin' better, maybe it's jest ez well thet you mislaid that pill." The wind blows sometimes from the east in Simkinsville, as elsewhere, and there are still occasional days when the deacon betakes himself to the front gate and sits like a nineteenth-century Simon Stilites on his pillar, contemplating the open palm of his own hand, while he enriches Mrs. Frequent's repertoire of gossip by a picturesque item. But the reverse of the picture has much of joy in it; for, in spite of her various tempers, Grandmother Gregg is a warm-hearted soul--and she loves her man. And he loves her. Listen to him to-night, for instance, as, having finished his supper, he remarks: "An' I'm a-goin' to see to it, from this on, thet you ain't fretted with things...
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