An Old Womans Tale

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e was bestridden by a couple of gold-bowed scenes with huge glasses. Be that as it may, the old woman’s face was squeezed, sharp and dull, wearing a closefisted and eager demeanor, and shaping an odd difference to the magnificence of her clothing, as did moreover the actualize which she grasped. It was such an iron scoop (by housewives named a “cut, for example, is utilized in clearing the broiler, and with this, choosing a spot between a pecan tree and the wellspring, the great lady made a sincere endeavor to burrow. The delicate turfs, in any case, had an odd solidness. They opposed her endeavors like a quarry of living rock, and losing her breath, she cast down the scoop and appeared to weep over herself most miserably, grinding her teeth (what hardly any she had) and wringing her dainty yellow hands.