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GRANDMOTHER SPEAKS
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an’ stoves—yes, an’ their pianos, too, an’ their time to think as there’s somethin’ else in the world besides children an’ the Bay.
“Yes, I reckon there’s a good word to be said for these days, as well as them days—an’ for them as well as these. Well! Well! but for my part I must own as I’m glad it was in them I mostly lived. It’s good to be in at the sowin’ o’ seed that’s bound to grow, be it cabbage, or a country. Look now, an’ see, does the kettle boil? For there’s your mother a-comin’ up the street.”
