But that she would n't do . She 'd set out to make me over but she had n't caught me young enough . I was n't allowed to come into the house unless I changed my boots for slippers at the door . I dars n't smoke a pipe for my life unless I went to the barn . And I did n't use good enough grammar . Emily 'd been a schoolteacher in her early life and she 'd never got over it . Then she hated to see me eating with my knife . Well , there it was , pick and nag everlasting . But I s ` pose , Anne , to be fair , I was cantankerous too . I did n't try to improve as I might have done ... I just got cranky and disagreeable when she found fault . I told her one day she had n't complained of my grammar when I proposed to her . It was n't an overly tactful thing to say . A woman would forgive a man for beating her sooner than for hinting she was too much pleased to get him . Well , we bickered along like that and it was n't exactly pleasant , but we might have got used to each other after a spell if it had n't been for Ginger . Ginger was the rock we split on at last . Emily did n't like parrots and she could n't stand Ginger 's profane habits of speech . I was attached to the bird for my brother the sailor 's sake . My brother the sailor was a pet of mine when we were little tads and he 'd sent Ginger to me when he was dying . I did n't see any sense in getting worked up over his swearing . There 's nothing I hate worse 'n profanity in a human being , but in a parrot , that 's just repeating what it 's heard with no more understanding of it than I 'd have of Chinese , allowances might be made .
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