Toad ointment ! Janet shuddered . That did not sound very nice . Granny noticed the shudder . `` Nothing like it , '' she said , nodding her crone-like old grey head . `` There 's other things , but noan so sure . Put a li'l bit -- oh , such a li'l bit -- on his eyelids , and he 's yourn for life . You need something powerful -- you 're noan so pretty -- only when you 're blushing . '' Janet was blushing again . So Granny thought she wanted the charm for herself ! Well , what did it matter ? Randall was the only one to be considered . `` Is it very -- expensive ? '' she faltered . She had not much money . Money was no plentiful thing on a P.E.I. farm in 1840 . `` Oh , noa -- oh , noa , '' Granny leered . `` I do n't sell it . I gives it . I like to see young folks happy .
You do n't need much , as I 've said -- just a li'l smootch and you 'll have your man , and send old Granny a bite o ' the wedding cake and fig o ' baccy XXXXX luck , and a bid to the fir-r-st christening !
Janet P.E.I. Randall for in like noa on to yourn