putterings, 549-546
After his customary puttering over tea,
tae, intae at times, the inrush and egress of it
is tinged with the tragedy of old age
a puttering old, puttering around in the woods all the time
toiling over the wash, But altogether the life;
His deafness made the seclusion at the Pines even more desirable.
It was, above all, an intellectual household
with old, deaf Minerva puttering about
straightening up after every intermittent cyclone
as well as Palestine, that the pillars of our ancient belief
may not crumble to the dust. “what good is that?”
“That’s getting’ a bit doolally.”
And with that matter satisfactorily arranged, I would retire early.