But he did not answer and was quickly out of sight.
Chapter XX
NAN'S SECRET
But Margaret Llewellen declared she would not go with her!
"It's nasty in the Tam'rack swamp; and there's frogs and, and
snakes. Ketch me! And as fur goin' ter see Tobe and his old
woman, huh! They're both as ugly as sin."
"Why, Margaret!" exclaimed Nan, in horror. "How you talk!"
"Wal, it's so. I don't like old, wizzled-up folks, I don't, now
I tell ye!"
"That sounds awfully cruel," said Nan, soberly.
"Huh!" snorted Margaret, no other word would just express her
manner of showing disgust. "There ain't no reason why I should
go 'round makin' believe likin' them as I don't like. Dad useter
take the hide off'n me and Bob for lyin'; an' then he'd stand an'
palaver folks that he jest couldn't scurce abide, fur I heard
him say so. That's lyin', too ain't it?"
"I, I don't believe it is right to criticize our parents,"
returned Nan, dodging the sharp girl's question.
"Mebbe yourn don't need criticizin', responded Margaret, bluntly.
"My dad ain't no angel, you kin bet."
And it was a fact that the Llewellen family was a peculiar one,
from "Gran'ther" down to Baby Bill, whom Margaret did not mind
taking care of when he was not "all broke out with the rash on
his face.
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