How in thunder she was ever going to get a stovepipe around a peach tree never crossed her mind.

She is just as impractical as a baby.
"When Bailey had the auction at his insurance office, there she was, and, sure enough, that afternoon she landed in our side yard with Bailey's poll-parrot and a circular saw.

It amused me.

She wanted to use that saw as a dinner-gong, but it was cracked, and so she has turned it into a griddle for muffins.

Bailey had taught the parrot to swear so that I was afraid it'd demoralize Charley, and I don't mind telling you in confidence that I killed it by putting bug-poison in a water-cracker.
"Now, I see there's an auction advertised for Friday at Peters'; and Peters has a pyramid of old tomato cans and bric-a-brac of that sort piled up in his back yard.