Every once in a while, I come across a passage in a book that, while I’m certain the author didn’t intend for it to be,  I find incredibly funny.  Take for example this passage from Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter.

Sally wanted to take the broom and clean the parlour.
“It’s clean as a ribbon,”   said mother.
“If you go in there, you’ll wake the baby,”  said Lucy.
“Will it kill it if I do?”  asked Sally.
“No, but it will make it cross as fire, so it will cry all the time Peter is here,”  said Lucy.
“I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t scream every minute, anyway,”  said Sally
“I hope it will,”  said Lucy.  ”That will make Peter think a while before he comes so often.”

That made Sally so angry she couldn’t speak, so she went out and began killing chickens.
(p. 74)


Ha!  Sally, it would appear, has anger issues.  :-D


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