Act 3 Flashcards
(9 cards)
Cue: *knock
“No-it can’t be any news of Tom. They wouldn’t knock. They’d come right in. Likely it’s mis’ Harper to ask if I’ve heard anything. Oh, it’s you, Gracie. Will you walk in child?”
“My ma sent me over to ask if you would please lend her the loan of two flatirons and a cake of yeast? She’s going to set bread tonight”
“You’ll find them flatirons on the hearth in the kitchen. Lmk tell your ma my year ain’t very fresh, but I ain’t had the heart for anything since Tom’s been gone”
Cue: “Maybe it’ll bring Tom up, an’ Joe, but Ma l says she reckons huck finn’s been so bad he’ll sink right through to hell. Oh, please. I must hurry!”
Cue: “I got it. My, ain’t them doughnuts grand”
“Come down, and I’ll give you a fresh one. Aunt no one to eat ’em, these days. Sid don’t care for ‘em, and I can’t touch ’em, now Tom’s gone. But Tom, he’d hook a doughnut if my back was so much as turned for a second. i been getting some fresh ones.i thought if he did come home, the first thing he’d do would be to look in that cupboard for a doughnut. i didn’t want to disappoint him.”
Cue: “my! I can smell ‘em!”
“You bring me that cullender!”
Cue: “I reckon Tom’d like these, he’d been alive!”
“Put some in your pocket if you want to, Gracie”
Cue: “oh, maybei? Me and Johnnie’s so lonesome since Tom an’ Harper’s got lost”
“You take some of them doughnuts home to Johnnie”
Cue: “Not mine”
“No, take more. Can you carry the irons? I’ll put the yeast in your apron”
Cue: “my! Looky! Everybody’s a-hurrying to the wharf!”
