Uncle Zenos (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Thayer, Albert L.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Uncle Zenos Scene. - Interior of farmhouse, sitting room. Mrs. Zenos White seated with pan of apples in her lap, paring same. Uncle Zenos and his brother-in-law, Hiram [who is on a brief visit] seated before the fireplace, talking over the old days and smoking. Hiram. - "Well Zenos, you seem to be pretty well fixed now, your children are having advantages you and I never had and I´m glad of it." Zenos. - (With a sigh.) "Yes Hiram, I´m doin´ all I can for the children but I´m worried over the boy; he´s jest that age when he´s gettin´ restless and don´t like to stay home nights, he´s down to the corner grocery evenins a listening to the talk down there an I´m afeard taint a doin´ ov him any good; he says there aint no fun home with me and Ma and I suppose that´s so; he says home aint half as interestin´ as ´tis down to Beale´s store and Ma and me don´t know what to do to attract him. What u´d you do if he was your boy?" Hiram. - (Poking his finger into his pipe slowly and thinking seriously.) "Wall Zenos I´ll tell you what I done about six months ago with my boy. He´s sixteen now and had begun to pull at the bitt pooty strong, an´ I went to town and bought him a melodeon - one of them music things with treadles that you pump with your feet and draw the music from the ivry keys with both hands. Wall the boy took to it, I hired a teacher for him an´ he´s learnin´ real fast, an Sabbaday nights your sister Polly an´ I sets down an´ sing while he plays the melodeon. It´s real sweet an´ he plays China and Ole Hundred real peart ´twould do your soul good to hear it." Zenos. - "Wall if I thought that u´d work with Bub I´d get him a - what´d ye call it?" Hiram. - "Melodeon." Zenos - ´Yes. yes I´d get him a melojum in a minute." Mrs. White. - "Now reely Hiram d´ye think a melojum would help matters much? I know they´re reel nice, and Becky Clark has got one with a Gamboge case, an´ she sings an´ plays beautiful on her´s, but praps Bub an´ Sis wont take to it at all." Hiram. - "Aint they got ears for music?" Mrs. White. - "I d´no Hiram; sometimes I think they has an´ then agin I think they haint, but them melojums cost a mint of money don´t they?" Zenos. - "Oh don´t you fret about the money mother. You´re too plaguey savin´. (to Hiram.) She takes that from the Nicholses; her pa Nichols was so close that he want goin to let me hev Mirandy unless I paid him fer her." Mrs. White. - "Now Zenos, you make that up out of hull cloth you know you do; Pa an´ Ma hed to be close with all the mouths they hed to feed an´ provde with raiment, but they want mean; don´t you believe a word he says Hiram." Hiram. - "Haw; haw! I know him of old Mirandy - he wouldn´t say nuthin if he didn´t talk." Mrs. White. - "No I know it, but it hurts my feelings to hear him run on about Pa an´ Ma an´ they both dead an gone an layin´ in their las´ restin´ places." (Puts her apron to her eyes.) Zenos. - "Sho now Mother, you orter know I didn´t mean nothin´ but a joke; you should orter know how to understan me by this time Mirandy." Mrs. White. - "Wall I don´t Zenos, an´ I wish you wouldn´t joke no more with me. I notice you don´t like to have Mike fire his jokes at you." Zenos. - "Wall Mike´s
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