The humming continued. “Who ’s that?” my mother answered, as if she was busy. “Tom or Josh? I never can tell you apart by your voices. What are you home for now? Is anything the matter?” I snickered nervously. “It ’s me, mother. It ’s Tim.” The humming stopped suddenly. “What! It ’s who?” I snickered again. I knew so well just how she looked, stopping her sewing, her foot on the treadle, and her head up, listening. “It ’s Tim. I ’m coming up.” There was a shriek, and the sound of a chair falling. I bounded up the stairs, and met her. At sight of me she stopped for an instant. “Mercy!” she cried. “Is that my little Tim?” Then her arms were around me, and she was laughing and crying on my shoulder. THE END TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original printed page numbers are shown like this {52} in the text edition, and are hidden in the html, epub, and mobi editions. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. Illustrations have been moved from within paragraphs to nearby locations between paragraphs. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org—search for “sheblowssparmatt00hopk”. Page 103. A full stop was added after _beat out and disgusted_. Page 123. A full stop was added after _faster than the Clearchus_. Page 214. Changed _Reunion_ to _Réunion_. Page 250. Changed _and we quartered the gounds_ to _and we quartered the grounds_. Page 310. Changed _lasily_ to _lazily_. Page 360. Changed ‘“deepo  ” we called it’ to ‘“deepo’ ” we called it’. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of She Blows! And Sparm at That!, by William John Hopkins