I like to feel good solid earth under
them feet!" and she peered quizzically over her round person at her
huge carpet slippers, and shook her head with a chuckle of amusement.
"I've watched them frisky little steam critters 'fore now, and they're
most dujeous like to a babby jest a-larnin' to walk, or a tipsy man
a-tryin' to steer straight when he sees double. No, thankee kindly,
but I guess I'll say good-by ashore, where I can cry it out comfortable
after you're gone."
"Foolish old Debby!" laughed Hope, while Faith looked with a sweet
regret at her dear old nurse, but did not speak.
"Do you know," said the stranger, who was about leaving, her business
having been long finished, "I am wondering how it happened that these
names were bestowed just as they are. Can you tell me, Mrs. Gunter?
It would seem as if the babies must have shown their dispositions when
very young--or was it a happy chance?"
Deborah laughed with unction. It was a story she was fond of telling.
They had just descended the stairs and she opened a door into a
snug-looking sitting-room off the hall as she said--
"Well, jest set you down again for a minute, 'm, if you please, and
I'll tell you. I ain't good for much at standin' long--too many pounds
to hold up. Here, 'm, this is the best chair--now I'll tell ye. Fact
is, I was in a real pupplex over them names for a time. First, I was
a-goin' to wait till their fayther got home, but they kept a-growin' so
fast thet it didn't seem right not to have 'em named.
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