These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon

Author:Jan Karon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

“Sissy and Sassy?” he inquired.

“It’s really Kaitlin and Kirsten,” said Puny, smiling hugely. “But we decided to call ‘em Sissy and Sassy.” She was holding one infant on either side. The whole lot had mops of red hair like he’d never seen before in his life.

“Which is, ah, Sissy and which is ... ?”

“This,” said Puny, shrugging her right shoulder, “is Sissy. And this,” she said, shrugging her left shoulder, “is Sassy. You’ll get to know ‘em apart when they come to work with me.”

“Take your time on that,” he said, meaning it. “No hurry. Why not take a month? Or take two—we can manage!”

Puny looked at him, wide-eyed. “We’d never pay our bills if I laid out for a month or two! You know that bathroom we added on, our own self? It cost four thousand dollars, and that’s without a toilet! Lord only knows when we can git a toilet!”

“Aha.”

“They say you fainted when Sassy popped out!”

“Went black,” he said, grinning. If Nurse Herman hadn’t snatched him up, he might have cracked his skull on the tile floor.

“Don’t y‘all worry about a thing,” Puny assured him. “I’ll be back in two weeks, good as new.”

He gazed at the new mother and her little brood, feeling a glad delight for the young woman who had taken over his home and his heart, all to his very great relief.

“You’re the best, Puny Guthrie.”

“I’ll bake you a cake of cornbread first thing,” she said, smiling happily.

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