11/23 But let a woman come, and get up under, and there he is--a pie crust lifted. Why, I, at my age, could get round him, as you call it. But you, miss--and more than that, you are something like his daughter; and the old man frets after her terrible. Go you into his yard, and just smile upon him, miss, and if the Moon River can be stopped, he'll stop it for you." This seemed a very easy way to do it. But I told Mrs.Busk that I would pay well also, for the loss of a day's work at the mill was more than fifty smiles could make up. |