uaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her thoughts together in such a brief space of time. One very trying day—I remember—she sent the dinner-table people into a roar of…
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uaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her thoughts together in such a brief space of time. One very trying day—I remember—she sent the dinner-table people into a roar of laughter by some remark she made about its being “so hot the Devil couldn’t sup his own soup.” Reproving her later I said: “Oh! Kate! Kate! However do you think of such things to say?” “Shure I dunno M’am!” she replied. “They jist pop inta me head, an befoore ye can say “knife,” they shlips outa me mouth like a lozenge ahead av a.
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