Identifier: ruddergrange00stoc (find matches)
Title: Rudder Grange
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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? said Mrs. Hogan, a new light breaking inupon her. An thats a good plan, sure. It must bedridful lownly in a house wid ownly wan baby. Now,theres one—Polly—would she do? Why, she can run, I said. I dont want onethat can run. Oh, dear! said Mrs. Hogan, with a sigh, theyall begin to run very airly. Now, Polly isnt owld atall, at all. I can see that, said I, but I want one that youcan put in a cradle—one that will have to stay therewhen you put it in. It was plain that Mrs. Hogans present stock did notcontain exactly what I wanted, and directly Mrs. Duffyexclaimed : Theres Mary McCann—an roight acrossthe way! Mrs. Hogan said, Yis, sure, and we all went overto a little house opposite. Now, thin, said Mrs. Duffy, entering the house,and proudly drawing a small coverlet from a littlebox-bed in a corner, what do you think of that? Why, there are two of them ! I exclaimed. To be sure, said Mrs. Duffy. Theyre tweens.Theres always two uv em when theyre tweens. Antheyre young enough. 232
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c r— RUDDER GRANGE Yes, said I, doubtfully, but I couldnt take both.Do you think their mother would rent one of them ? The women shook their heads. Ye see, sir, saidMrs. Hogan, Mary McCann isnt here, bein gone outto a wash, but she ownly has four or foive childther,an she aint much used to em yit, an I kin spake furher that shed niver siparate a pair o tweens. Whenshe gits a dozen hersilf, and marries a widow gintlemanwid a lot uv his own, shell be glad enough to be lettinye have yer pick, to take wan uv em fur coompanyto yer own baby, at foive dollars a week. Moindthat. I visited several houses after this, still in companywith Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Duffy, and finally secureda youngish infant, who, having been left motherless,had become what Mrs. Duffy called a bottle-baby,and was in charge of a neighboring aunt. It seemedstrange that this child, so eminently adapted to pur-poses of rental, was not offered to me at first, but Isuppose the Irish ladies who had the matter in chargewante

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