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. 1910 Excerpt: ...language that he would understand. She saw me started and told me to be good. "Do you remember what you are going for?" she called after me. "Cold cream," I said. "Mind you don't forget--a large jar. Charge it to Sir Peter." "Won't you give me a little cash just to have in my pocket?" I pleaded. "Not a penny," she said ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...language that he would understand. She saw me started and told me to be good. "Do you remember what you are going for?" she called after me. "Cold cream," I said. "Mind you don't forget--a large jar. Charge it to Sir Peter." "Won't you give me a little cash just to have in my pocket?" I pleaded. "Not a penny," she said. "Be off with you!" And the tall rice closed about the canoe and folded it, as it were, in a cool shadow. The sisters McMoultrie were at the chemist's, inside the shop this time; and at sight of me each made haste to swallow something that she had in her mouth. The elder gagged and I burst out laughing. "Gum?" I asked. "No," cried the younger indignantly, "what do you take us for? They were bull's-eyes. You hold them in your mouth until they melt, and then you don't." "Yours melted mighty sudden," I said. The elder McMoultrie put her hand to her throat and said dismally, " I wish mine would. Mine's stuck." "You ladies appear to live here," I said. But no. It was Granny as usual. Last time Granny had been out of quinine for the shakes; this time it w fever, and she was all out of phenacetin.l They could never keep drugs in the house two minutes. Where drugs were concerned Granny was like a swarm of locusts out of the Bible, devouring evY erything. I should see their garden wall. It was a hundred years old, but it looked like new. Granny had licked all the phosphorus off the bricks. Grow simples in the garden? Well, one should rather think one tried. But to what end? As well turn the place full of goats and rabbits. And so much talk at Granny's expense, and much eye-work at mine; so much so that when I finally departed with th...
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