Feeling please with his morning’s work, he took up his basket and hummed to himself as he made his way back home. “I wouldn’t want to hurt her,” he thought, “but it would do her good to sit at the bottom of a cold, dark pit for just one night.”
The sound of the latch woke up his wife, who had been asleep all the morning in front of the stove.
“What time do you call this?” she demanded. “And look at the basket: it’s not Continue reading
She was such a big woman and Antipka was such a small, mild young man that he always got the worst of their arguments. And so to calm her down he said quietly, “If you would like to go picking cranberries, my dear, I’ll go indoors and do the washing-up and the housework.”
“That’s right,” shrieked his wife. “That’s you all over. Trust a man to choose the light work and send his poor wife off to break her back and catch her death of cold Continue reading
“Beaver is a boy, and so of course, he is always in trouble. But when Beaver gets a dog, and the dog’s name is Trouble, there is more fun than usual. “Leave it to Beaver” is a popular television show.”
Beaver Cleaver was the busiest boy in town. He was busy from sun-up to sun-down. But somehow he alwasy found time to get into trouble.
“No question about it, if there’s trouble to be found, Beaver will find it,” was what his brother Continue reading