Todd's youngest baby, the Widder
Todd's only son, Susan Todd's brother, and, when Susan Todd's
oldest boy fought at Chapultepec, William Peck's uncle.
The Widder Bixby's record was far different.
She was the mildest of the four Stover sisters of Scarboro,
and the quartette was supposed to have furnished more kinds
of temper than had ever before come from one household.
When Peace, the eldest, was mad, she frequently kicked the churn
out of the kitchen door, cream and all,--and that lost
her a husband.
Love, the second, married, and according to local tradition once
kicked her husband all the way up Foolscap Hill with a dried cod-fish.
Charity, the third, married too, -- for the Stovers of Scarboro were
handsome girls, but she got a fit mate in her spouse. She failed
to intimidate him, for he was a foeman worthy of her steel;
but she left his bed and board, and left in a manner that kept up
the credit of the Stover family of Scarboro.
They had had a stormy breakfast one morning before he started
to Portland with a load of hay.
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