“She says it's just in front of that house and come just as quick as you possibly can.”
“What does she mean by ‘in front of it’?”
“Why, it's just across the street, and come just as quick as you possibly—”
“Yes. I'll run.”
Mary smiled, but she was glad to hear her husband add a little more pleasantly, “I'll be out there after a little.”
When he came home he said, laughing, “That girl up there took the medicine I gave her and pounded the bottle to flinders before my eyes.”
“What for?”
“O, she was mad.”
“What did you do then?”
“Reached down in my pocket and took out another one just like it and told them to give it according to directions.”