She was about the same age as Kitty, and the owld woman took her out of kindness and brought them up together.

She got to be jist as ugly a looking a gal as Tom was a man.
Her hair was redder than his, and her face was just that freckled that yees couldn't tell which was the freckle and which was the skin itself.

And her nose had a twist, on the ind of it, that made one think it had been made for a corkscrew, or some machine that you bore holes with.
"This gal, Molly Mulligan, used to encourage Tom to come to the house, and was always so mighty kind to him that he used to kiss and shpark her by way of compinsating her for her trouble.

She used to take this all _very_ well, for she was a great admirer of Tom's, and always spoke his praise.

But Tom didn't make much headway with Kitty.