human
Just to make the thing clear, let us suppose an example. Now, then, supposin', for instance, that Thora here saw a basin full o' milk with thick cream on the top o' it, and that her teeth were watering for just one lick. She ought to say to herself: 'Now, here's a basin full o' good cream; I'd like fine to take one lick of it. But it's the cream for making the butter of. Now, supposin' I was your mother, how would I like my daughter Thora to come and--'
gpt
Oh! Look, look! cried Thora,
human
Confound you, Thora! exclaimed her father, angered at this interruption.
gpt
Can you not pay attention, and let pussy mind her own tail? I say, if you were your mother, how would you like your daughter Thora to lick the cream?
human
Tut, goodman! interposed Mrs. Kinlay,
gpt
Odd, goodwife, I'm but supposin' the thing; and the plainer it is the better, and the easier to understand. However, what verse was it, Thora?
human
It was the fourteenth you left off at,
gpt
Aweel, then, the fifteenth: 'Now, when he'--Odd, but I think we read that before.
human
Nay, you didna read it before, father, for it was the fourteenth verse you left off at.
gpt
Nay, I'm sure it couldn't be that, for I remember readin' 'Now, when he,' before.
human
But I'm sure, father, ye're wrong, persisted Thora.
gpt
Look you if the fourteenth doesn't end with 'people,' and 'people' was the last word you read.
human
said Carver, searching for the place.
gpt
Odd, lassie, I see no 'people.' There's one verse that ends with 'people,' but it's not the fourteenth. It had been that, ye silly lass, instead o' the fourteenth.
human
Well, well, goodman, what dos't matter what verse you left off at, said his wife.
gpt
A good tale's none the worse of being told twice.
human
Nay, but, said Thora,
gpt
Fun, lassie! fun! exclaimed Carver, as though he was seriously shocked.
human
Would you speak o' fun and the Holy Scripture lying open before you?
gpt
O, but, father, I had no mind. A body canna aye be minding. Look and see not for fun, then.
human
Tut, tut! said the mother, becoming impatient,
gpt
Aweel, then, the fifteenth verse, 'Now, when he'
human
Listen, father! cried Thora, again interrupting,
gpt
Well did I hear something, and I hear it yet--the rain pelting on the window. I'm sure you've heard it this two hours and more.
human
Nay, but it was like something twirling at the handle of the door.
gpt
You hear things nobody else hears, Thora. Who could be at the door on a day like this? You just think you hear things. I was sure 'people' was not the last word.