"TOM!"
(Direct Address) /
No answer.
/
"TOM!"
(Direct Address) /
No answer.
/
["What's
gone {with that boy},]
I
wonder?
/
You TOM!"
(Direct Address)/
No answer.
/
The old lady
pulled
her
spectacles
down
and
looked
{over
them}{about the room}; /
then
she
put
them
up
andlooked
out
{under
them}. / She
seldom
or never looked
{THROUGH
them} {for so small
a thing} {as a boy}; /
they
were
her
state pair,
the
pride
(Appositive
to "pair") {of her heart}, and
were
built {for "style," not
service} /
--
she
could
have seen {through a pair} {of stove-lids}
just
as well.
/
She
looked
perplexed {for a moment},
and
then
said,
not
fiercely, but still loud enough {for the furniture
to
hear}:
/
"Well
(Interjection), I
lay
[[if
I
get hold {of
you}] I'll--"]
/
She
did not
finish,
[for
{by
this time} she
was
bending down
and
punching
{under
the bed} {with the broom}],
and
[so she
needed
breath to punctuate
the
punches
with.] /
She resurrected
nothing
{but
the cat}. /
"I never
did
see the
beat
{of
that boy}!" /
She
went
{to
the open door} and
stood
{in
it} and
looked
out
{among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds}
[that
constituted
the
garden.]
/ No Tom.
/
Soshe
lifted
up
her voice
{at
an angle}
calculated
{for distance} and shouted:
"Y-o-u-u
TOM!" (Direct
Address) /
There
was a slightnoise
{behind
her} /
and
she
turned just
{in time}
to seize a
small boy {by
the slack} {of his roundabout} and arrest
his
flight.
/
"There!
(Interjection) /
I
might
'a' thought {of that closet}. /
What
you been
doing {in there}?" /
"Nothing."/
"Nothing!
/
Look
{at your hands}. / Andlook
{at
your mouth}./
What IS
that
truck?"
/
"I don't
know,
aunt."
(Direct Address) /
"Well,
(Interjection) I
know.
/
It's
jam
/ -- that's
[what
it
is.]
/
Fortytimes
(NuA)I've
said
[[if
youdidn't
let
that
jam
alone]
I'd
skin you.]
/ Hand
me
that
switch."
/
The
switch
hovered{in
the air} /
-- the
peril was
desperate
--
/
"My!
(Interjection) /
Look
{behind
you}, aunt!" (Direct
Address)/
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