"You didn't ask anybody to take dinner with us today,
Nannie?"
"I asked several, Jodie. But Miss Maime had already invited
Vic and the schoolteacher to go with her and Doctor Elton. And
January is always their turn to take the preacher, you remember."
"Yeah, I bet Doctor Elton's looking forward to that! It'll
half kill the man to sit all evening and talk to Brother
Milligan!"
When we got home, I climbed down from the wagon and skipped
on toward the front porch. Mierd's old Nero came around the
corner of the house and met me at the yard gate. When I stopped
to pet him, he purred and rubbed his back up against my legs.
Mama called to me from the kitchen and told me to run and
tell Grandpa and Grandma that we were home from church. "Tell
them I'll have Grandma's tray ready in just a little bit-soon as
I can warm up the chicken and dumplings."
In a few minutes I was back, and I found Mama in the kitchen
already setting things on Grandma's dinner tray.
"Mama, you know what Grandma Ming said?"
"No, there's no telling 'bout your grandma.
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