Aunt Madge's Story

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Here you sit all waiting for a story. How shall I begin? Let us see.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>There once lived and moved a little try-patience called Margaret Parlin; no more nor less a personage than myself your very humble servant.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>They called me Marg'et Maggie Marjie Madge; and your grandpa's pet name was Totty-wax; only if I joggled the floor when he shaved it was full-length Mar-ga-ret.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>My motto in my little days seems to have been </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Speak twice before you think once;</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> and you will see what troubles it led me into. I never failed to speak twice but often forgot the thinking altogether.</span></p>