A Day No Pigs Would Die Archive

Characters
Robert Peck: Main Character, young boy
Pinky: Robert's pig from Mr. Tanner.
Haven Peck: Robert's father
Lucy Peck: Robert's mother
Carrie: Robert's Aunt
Benjamin Tanner: Neighbor
Aunt Mattie: family friend (not aunt), former english teacher
Edward Thatcher: kid that teased Robert

Phrases
(77) you look like a potato dug up on a rainy day
(74) I can't undo what's already ben did.
(70) your husband's kin=husbands relatives
(68) The sky's a good place to look, and I got a notions it's a good place to go.
(66) I'd give uppie for breakfast if I could of growed like she growed.
(64) didn't mean spit to to=meant nothing
(62) dont cotton to=do not like
(57) 'didn't have brains enough to dump sand out a boot.'
(53) 'because it sure gave her the vapors'=upset her
(48) 'if'n I'm not to home come chore time, Hell won't have it.'
(45) 'be there until Hell froze and got hauled to the ice house'
(44) 'Papa wasn't one to smile every year'
(42) 'didn't find it near as comely'=not as attractive
(38) 'simple as beans'
(37) 'we suffer the less for not paining with worldly wants and wishes'
(34) 'proud as pie'
(33) 'falsing a witness'=lying
(29) 'or I'd got skinned'=punished
(24) 'nervous as a longtail cat in a room full of rocking chairs'
(23) 'and in a Shaker household, there wasn't anything as evil as a frill.'
(21) 'it's not the Shaker way to take frills for being neighborly'
(20) 'clean as clergy'=very clean
(18) 'ready as rain'=very ready
(17) 'smell like Sunday morning'= smell clean/good
(14) 'disremember'= don't remember
(14) 'I don't cotton to'= don't want to
(13) 'I ought to lick you proper'= punish/beat
(13) 'I'm preferenced to'=I'd rather, prefer
(12) 'burdended me'= carried me
(11) 'clean as a cats mouth' = very clean
(11) 'holler out all the dirt'= bleed clean
(10) 'worse then proper' = badly
(10) 'We're beholding to you' = We owe you
(8) 'wrong as sin on Sunday' = very wrong
(6) 'hanging on to wait christmas'= held tightly
(5) 'got a purchase on' = got a hold of

Favorite Phrase
A good teacher does not lose her temper, no matter how stupid her pupils are. (Aunt Mattie, p58)

(related)"How was the first (english) lesson (with Robert)?""Next time, " said Aunty Matty,"I'll teach the pig."

Unfamiliar Words
blundersome=difficult/heavy
brood sow=used for breeding, not eating
capstan=leveraged axle
Goiter=Thyroid growth
Lammis (Table)=?
mirthful=funny
misdo=mistake
Muslin=Cotton cloth
Pomade=Hair 'grease'
remedy=bad medcine
Spruce Gum
Succotash=Bean Stew
Sumac Whistle
tomfool=crazy
tutor=tooter :)