I d' 'no' how much they'd cost him, but 'twas a pooty good sum.

An' she shoved her elbow right through it and smashed it into shivers.

I jumped up, kind o' startled by the crash.

But ol' Mis' Meeker, she jes' looked up, as if she was a _leetle_ bit surprised, but nothin' wuth mentionin'.

'Why, honey!' says she, in her slow, drawlin' kind o' way, 'I didn't know ye wanted to go _that_ bad! Put on yer bunnit, an' go an' play with Eddie _this minute_!' says she.