But, howsomever, Abel wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn’t able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown Cemetery, Abel Perry’ses folks was carried to the county house for the winter, S. Annie, the children, and all.
“It lay there by the side of the road, a great white shape.”
And it happened dretful cur’us, but the town hired that very team that drawed the monument there, to take the family back.
It wuz a good team.
The monument wuzn’t set up, for they lacked money to pay for the underpinnin’. (Wuzn’t it cur’us, Abel Perry never would think of the underpinnin’ to anything?) But it lay there by the side of the road, a great white shape.
And they say the children wuz skairt, and cried, when they went by it,—cried and wept.
But I believe it wuz because they wuz cold and hungry that made ’em cry. I don’t believe it wuz the monument.
- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.