It will be considered wondrous - and then the presents and the letter from the five Flushing children who never saw her! How wonderful! I think I can hear at this moment what they said. A Yankee woman spoke out: "Well now, Dolly Dolan, isn't it *a tarnal* extra -onary thing that them children at Flushing should have sent that box full
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of sich nice notions clean here to Betty when they never seed her in their born days!" Then Mrs. Suckabone said: "It was strange and terrible odd that sich a green thing should come to be a favorite. I can tell you that I wish somebody would just think about a poor old critter of my size, and send her sich a lot of *raal rewivin'* things! Why who ever seed sich an uncommon heap of very choice coffee, sugar and crackers! Why Betty won't eat them all for two years to come!" &c.
Suckabone said: "It was strange and terrible odd that sich a green thing should come to be a favorite. I can tell you that I wish somebody would just think about a poor old critter of my size, and send her sich a lot of *raal rewivin'* things! Why who ever seed sich an uncommon heap of very choice coffee, sugar and crackers! Why Betty won't eat them all for two years to come!" &c.