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Kate stood breathlessly still, looking at her mother Mrs Bates

wiped her eyes "I ain't so mortal certain," she said, "that I

don't open up on him and take the first word I think likely I

been defrauded out of more that really counts in this world, than

he has Ain't that little roly-poly of Hannah's too sweet? See her little sticky hands and her

little hot mouth on my face when I die; and as she went out she

whispered in ain, Grandma, Oh, please do it

again!' an it'sI a to leave you what of my money

is left -- I haven't spent so much -- and while you live here, I

wish each year you would have this same kind of a party and pay

for it out of that money, and call it 'Grandmother's Party' Will

you?"

"I surely will," said Kate "And hadn't I better have ALL of

the from you on the tree for them?

You kno Hiram alild for cuff buttons, and Mary

could talk by the hour about a handkerchief with lace on it, and

Andrew never yet has got that copy of 'Aesop's Fables,' he always

wanted Shall I?"

"Yes," said Mrs Bates "Oh, yes, and when you do it, Katie, if

they don't chain me pretty close in on the other side, I think