[Rudder Grange by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookRudder Grange CHAPTER III 10/13
Don't worry about it--give your mind no more uneasiness on that subject.
I'll bring the hot water." She did not know very much, but she was delighted to learn, and she was very strong.
Whatever Euphemia told her to do, she did instantly with a bang.
What pleased her better than anything else was to run up and down the gang-plank, carrying buckets of water to water the garden. She delighted in out-door work, and sometimes dug so vigorously in our garden that she brought up pieces of the deck-planking with every shovelful. Our boarder took the greatest interest in her, and sometimes watched her movements so intently that he let his pipe go out. "What a whacking girl that would be to tread out grapes in the vineyards of Italy! She'd make wine cheap," he once remarked. "Then I'm glad she isn't there," said Euphemia, "for wine oughtn't to be cheap." Euphemia was a thorough little temperance woman. The one thing about Pomona that troubled me more than anything else was her taste for literature.
It was not literature to which I objected, but her very peculiar taste.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|