Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . the best, declaredFrances, cause he isnt frever getting inyour way, and hasnt any castor oil like Doc-tor Sanford, and you dont frever have to betelling him youre sorry you did what youdid, and he hasnt all time got one eye onyou either, like God, and got to follow you 120 Miss Minerva round. And Santa Claus dont all time say,*Shet your eyes and open your mouth/like Doctor Sanford, and poke out yourtongue. I like Doctor Sanford the best, saidFlorence, cause hes my uncle, and Godand Santa Claus aint kin to me. And the Bible say, Love your kinfolks.*Miss Cec
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . the best, declaredFrances, cause he isnt frever getting inyour way, and hasnt any castor oil like Doc-tor Sanford, and you dont frever have to betelling him youre sorry you did what youdid, and he hasnt all time got one eye onyou either, like God, and got to follow you 120 Miss Minerva round. And Santa Claus dont all time say,*Shet your eyes and open your mouth/like Doctor Sanford, and poke out yourtongue. I like Doctor Sanford the best, saidFlorence, cause hes my uncle, and Godand Santa Claus aint kin to me. And the Bible say, Love your kinfolks.*Miss Cecilia splained— I use to like my Uncle Doc heap betternwhat I do now, went on the little girl, heed-less of Jimmys interruption, till I wentwith daddy to his office one day. And whatyou reckon that mans got in his office?Hes got a dead man thout no meat norcloes on in there, nothing a-tall but justhis bones. Was he a hant? asked Billy. I likethe Major best—hes got meat on. Naw; he didnt have no sheet on—justbones, was the 122 Miss Minerva and No sheet on; no meat on I chirrupedBilly, glad of the rhyme. Was he a angel, Florence^ questionedFrances. Naw; he didnt have no harp and nowings neither. It must have been a skeleton, explainedLina. And Uncle Doc just keeps that poorman there and wont let him go to Heavenwhere dead folks blongs. I spec he wasnt a good man fore hedied and got to go to the Bad Place, sug-gested Frances. Ill betcher he never asked God to for-give him when he ceived his papa andsassed his mama, — this from Jimmy,—and Doctor Sanfords just a-keeping oldSatan from getting him to toast on a pitch-fork. I hope theyll have a Christmas tree at William Green Hill 123 Sunday school next Christmas, said Fran-ces, harking back, and I hope I 11 get a heapo things like I did last Christmas. Poorlittle Tommy Knott, hes so skeered hewasnt going to get nothing at all on thetree so he got him a great, big, red applean he wrote on a piece o paper FromTommy Knot
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