sense it, she wuz dumbfoundered and sot back by the news. And she left my home and board the week before the weddin'.

   They had been married about a year, when Jenette wuz here a-visitin'—and she asked me in confidence (and it

    must

   be kep, it stands lo reason it must), "if I s'posed that book muslin robe would make two little dresses?"

   And I told her, "Good land! yes, three on 'em," and it did.

   She dresses the child beautiful, and I don't know whether she would want the neighbors to know jest what and when and where she gets the materials—

   It looks some like her and some like Joe—and they both think their eyes on it—but old Miss Charnick worships it—Wall, though es I said (and I have eppisoded to a extent that is almost onprecidented and onheard on).

   Though Josiah Allen made a excuse of borrowin' a plow (a

    plow

   , that time of night) to get away from my arguments on the Conference, and Submit's kinder skairt face, and so forth, and so on—

   He resumed the conversation the next mornin' with more energy than ever. (He never said nuthin' about the plow, and I never see no sign on it, and don't believe he got it, or wanted it.)

   He resumed the subject, and kep on a-resumin' of it from day to day and from hour to hour.

   He would nearly exhaust the subject at home, and then he would tackle the wimmen on it at the Methodist Meetin' House, while we Methodist wimmen wuz to work.

   After leavin' me to the meetin' house, Josiah would go on to the post-office for his daily

    World

   , and then he would stop on his way back to give us female wimmen the latest news from the Conference, and give us his idees on't.

   And sometimes he would fairly harrow us to the very bone, with his dretful imaginins and fears that wimmen would be allowed to overdo herself, and ruin her health, and strain her mind, by bein' permitted to set!

   Why Submit Tewksbury, and some of the other weaker 

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