16/29 When I told her that I meant to have a pair of ponies, she merely threw up her hands and grunted. She didn't gnash her teeth, and curse and swear, and declare to me that I was a child of perdition." "What do you mean by cursing and swearing ?" "She told me once that if I bought a certain little dog, it would lead to my being everlastingly--you know what. She isn't so squeamish as I am, and said it out." "What did you do ?" "I bought the little dog, and it bit my aunt's heel. I was very sorry then, and gave the creature to Mary Rivers. He was such a beauty! I hope the perdition has gone with him, for I don't like Mary Rivers at all. |