. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Katie OHalloran, that is. Her full namesKatherine Ursula Veronica OHalloran, butdont nobody call her that. Ef she knowed we was keepinher pitchurein here shed burn our house down, I guess, fershe hates pa somethin scandlous. One timeour cow got into her garden and tromped it andth next time she seen pa, Katie give him an awfultongue lashin, and there aint nobody can do itbetter. Pa, he jist stood there grinnin andtook it, but when Katie got out uh
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Katie OHalloran, that is. Her full namesKatherine Ursula Veronica OHalloran, butdont nobody call her that. Ef she knowed we was keepinher pitchurein here shed burn our house down, I guess, fershe hates pa somethin scandlous. One timeour cow got into her garden and tromped it andth next time she seen pa, Katie give him an awfultongue lashin, and there aint nobody can do itbetter. Pa, he jist stood there grinnin andtook it, but when Katie got out uh breath pasings out, Aha!she cried, and she wa\ed herwooden laig. That made Katie jist crucifyinmad, fer she aint got no wooden laig, yuh know,and she grabbed a mop and chased pa William Tecumsy Sherman Sparks, that dont seem t most people t be s awfulbright, but ma says all he needs is a few moreyears and some edjacation t round him says what th boy needs fer that is victuals,and t stop growin. Onct pa was havin a kind of a jokinargyment weth Tecumsy and says t him,Fer it would be better ef a millstone was hungonto yer neck—and so on; I dont know threst, but its Scripture, yuh know—and Te-cumsy, he snarls out, Aw! that darned Shake-speare agin! he over.
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