was much the same asthe ordinary run of mothers. We boys al-ways knew what Mother Auton would do on certain occasions.There was no cheating about her. When she said, Ill see, weknew just as well that we should have what we were begging herfor, as if she had actually said, Yes, my dear, you may have… … OUR MOTHER AUTON. 67 bosom, we slept more sweetly than on any other pillow. In laterlife, how puzzled grandfather would have been, to span her portlywaist with his two hands, as he used to do so easily when she wasbut eighteen! and to look into her sweet blue eyes no one woulddetect the hidden snap…
Children's stories, American
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