Chapter 21 A SWOOP AND A SCRATCH

When Molly Stillwater heard that Margaret and her "wild man" had gone into the woods for their honeymoon she said: "Rita's got to tame him and train him for human society. So she's taken him where there are no neighbors to hear him scream as-as-" Molly cast about in her stock of slang for a phrase that was vigorous enough-"as she 'puts the boots' t