Page 233 - Adventures in shadow-land

no feelin’s at all, kind of too dull and stupid and
full of herself to keer very much about anything.

This wooden girl of ourn is uncommon handsome,
though I say it, but bless you, Master Torrey! she

hain't got no more brains in her skull than a min-
■ now She’d be a kind of dead-and-alive sort of a

crittei ilways. If she had a husband, she'd never
bothei herself if he was in trouble. If she had a
baby, she wouldn’t care much for it, only maybe

to dress it up,”
The old man seemed strangely excited in this

absurd discussion. Master Torrey, too, seemed
much disturbed and not a little provoked. Anna

Jane sat c<Um and still, and wondered whether
that light green color in the nymph’ s robe would
become her. The colonel, who had not the faint­

est idea what the two men were talking about,
looked from one to the other uncomprehending,

and consequently slightly offended.
"A re you talking about this wooden image?’1
he said, wondering.

“ Yes, to be sure, cunnel,” said Job, with an
odd sound between a laugh and a groan.