though hidden sometimes, like volcanic fires, and other married men's affections for t

her aunt Mary's, he gave me a flaming proof of

and with the bland and amiable

d buy a en

ally he got behind the agent, and winked at me, and made motions for me to foller him into the buttery. He wunk several times before I paid much attention to 'em; but finally, the winks grew so violent, and

, Samantha! you do

row me? and w

d at your age, and with your rheumatiz, you'd get throwed, and get your neck broke, the first day." Says he, "If you have got to have some

her?" says

one as Tom Go

ou mean a

er than have you a ridin' round

im all about 'em. He thought it was some kind of a bycicle. And

Elburtus'es bein' there, and talkin' so much on politics, had kinder sot him to thinkin' on it. Anyway, he come home from

way, such as men will sometimes assume when they t

s approached yo

ught it wouldn't be best to tell who it was. "But," says he, "I am bound to be senator. Josi

. You are as lame as you can be. You h

honor. You know they have elected me path-master, but I hain't a goin' to accept it. I tell you, when anybody gets into political life, ambition rousts up

There hain't no danger

ave laid my plans, and laid 'em careful. I am going to act offish. I feel that offishness is my strong holt-and endearin' myself to the masses. Educatin' public sentiment up to lovin' me, and urgin' me not to be

in spite

, if every other plan fails, will e

nd how I hung back from this idee! I am one

tion, Josiah Allen! And if you

continued dreamily, "There would ha

be?" says I sternly. "A

p onto the kitchen ceilin', as if wires wus liab

you have to go t

I should,

that I hain't goin' to give my consent to have you go into any thin

a age to break my neck in as any other. I nev

ve you plunge into such dangerous enterprizes. And talkin' about pullin' wires sounds dangerous: it sou

hain't pulled in that way. You don't pull 'em

You are all right in that case: you w

it; and he knew that I knew it, because I have had to sometimes, in the cause of Right, remind him of it. But he knows that my love for him towers up like a dromedary

kinder puttin' his head on one side, and lookin' shrewdly up at

f-breed; or," says I, "it would depend on what breeds they wuz. If they wus

this, you would act like a rational bein'. I'll be

you got any principle? Don't y

ral. I'm a Democrat in times of peace. But it is

red instinctively,

Granny!"

gin, and k

t runnin' for senator, and pullin' wires, and etcetery. But, o

t political men, and you'l

ed his heart-th

t no heads for business, and I always said so. They

ar account of time, but I think it wus about anon,-when another thought struck me so, right in my breast, that it most knocked me over. It hanted me all th

posen he would have to go to Washington. I knew strange things took place in politics. Strange men r

kness of men, and their liability to be led astray. I thought of the powerful blasts of temptation that blowed

me, he would (in a moral sense) be lifted right up, and

ass through with no smell of fire on his overcoat-if there wuz any possibility of it. If there wuz, why, I should stand still, and let things take their course. But if my worst apprehensions wuz realized, if I see that i

so, I felt that he would think he wus bein' domineered over by me. Men are so sort o' high-headed and haughty about some things

in', for I thought I would tackle

ep on his tomb for, Sam

ht, Josiah Allen: the sun of gratitude never goes down; it

lf a cent that you'll cry onto the ice-house, as I've heard of

at the right time, and in the right place. And

d jobs immejutly and to once,

n an injured tone, "what you calcula

s, and work for herself; they are goin' to be married before long: and I'll give

e? She hain't no cook. I'd as lives e

before she goes, Josiah; and I don't

-pies ahead, and other kinds of pies, and some fruit-cake, and cookies, an

ill two cubbard shelves full of prov

my tower; for I dreaded, oh, how I dreaded, the job! But as day by day passed, he grew more and more rampant

Josiah

book, "Old Peedick debtor to two

to do when he got to Washington, D.C.-what great things he

ll have to ge

hey all do. But as I told you before, if every thing else fails, I have got a grand plan to fall

tell his plan to his lovin' p

tellin' me what great things he wus

to be United-States senator, uncle Nate Gowdey sha

hether he is fit fo

thing about it. I am bound t

ined," says I,-"wouldn't ha

s the New-York aldermen do, or the civil-service

Ye

e you been unc

answer; an

ou calculate to

ell; and the

ualifications for office. You are

lect me, sink or swim; and I calculate to make money out of the project,-mo

pent now to hire votes with; and I shall prove it right out, that we can get votes cheaper if we senators all join in together, and put our feet right down that we won't

make a thorough end of that. There is one

you do i

canal cleaned out from

"about the corruption of the canal quest

ans that the bottom of the canal is all covered with dead cats and things; and it ort to be seen to, by men that is cap

. The ground is good enough for me, and for any other solid man. It is some visionary chap that begun it in the first place. Nothin' but dumb foolishness; and so uncle Nate Gowde

mmin's votin'. He said any man was a fool to think that a woman would ever have the requisit g

stand things in order to tackle po

d the revenue. I shall most probable f

?" s

n't understand it. But I shall push 'e

to?"

much the public duties we have to perform that ages us, and wears us out before our time,-it is woman's weak

o answer." Says I, "Josiah Allen, you don't kn

, and I know what vittles means, an

pare the potatoes, and grind the coffee, and pound the steak

te and I wus a talkin' about it yesterday. It is jest what we need. Why, as uncle Nate said, hired men hain't civil at all, nor hired girls either. You hire 'em t

over night to Cleveland, and the hotel-clerk sassed him, jest because

ys was good enough for him: blows wus made before turners, and he should blow it

nkled, uncle Nate says it did, it rankled deep. And he says he wants to v

a sound man: hi

He said there was too much talk about 'em in the papers, and too little done about 'em. Why, Elam Gowdey, uncle Nate's youngest boy, broke down the platfo

uild a new one; but he was slack. But, as uncle Nate says

was talkin' about," says he, lookin' very amiable a

r Irishman and Chinaman out

shmen done, Josia

e hain't no use in our a

of One who renounced the throne of th

t probable the

the Chinaman

es the United States want with heathens an

'You shall have the heathen for an inheritance'-and 'preach the gospel to the heathen'-and 'we who wer

mbine Bible and politics worth a cent. And the Chinaman works too cheap-are too industrious, and

irmly, "is that all the

'em; that he can't never be mingled in with 'em peacible. And I'll bet that I'll start the Catholics out-and the Jews. What under the sun is the use of havin' anybody here in America only jest Methodists? That is the only right way. And if I have my way, I'll get rid of 'em,-Chi

us to liberty and prosperity when we needed 'em as bad as the Irishmen and Chinamen do to-day; and I s'posed that torch

pose: it is to light up our land and o

sort of a cold

glanders a sittin' round Plymouth Rock, to be a

whittlin' out a stick, and wors

he country? Is it for the sake of humanity you drive 'em out? or be you, like t

antha Allen. That would be the last th

ere he had been kicked by a yearlin'. Th

hick patriotic excuses; but I fear,

lf should amble right out, marked with its own name and the name of its owner, what a sight, what a si

the squirm in' into a sickly smile; and he murmure

at wouldn't look so bad on a l

marked, 'Wealth.' Very yeller those calv

kin' calves, these, and sights of 'em. But the mantilly

ess.' The last-named would be too numerous to count with the naked eye, and go pushin' aginst each other, rushin' right through meetin'-housen,

t whinner!"

I, in a very blind way, "Parables are use

r cross, "your potatoe

, applied to his stomach internally, seemed to sooth him,-them, and the nice tender

onesville to get the old mare shod. And I see sadly, as he stood to the lookin'-glass combin' out his few hairs, how every b

to ride on. I calculate," says he, pullin' up his collar, and pullin' down his vest,-"I lay out to dress gay, and act

says I

tyle. Mebby," says he dreamily, "I shall ride the drag. I s'pose that is fashionable. But I'll be hanged if I should think it would be easy ridin' unles

anybody that sees you at Washington, will see tant

t probable sha

wn, blank verse sort of a way. "Ere long!

key. I mentioned to him that "the bobbin to my sewin'-machine was

hine; and speakin' of machines, that makes me think

politics with, when there is plenty of men willin', and more than willin', to make 'em? A

you without sweari

swearin', nor never wuz. I shall use th

"there will have to be

h! how I see that immovi

dy along in the winter when the hens don't lay, and we don't make butter to turn off-it will come dretful handy to jest hitch up the mare, an

s I in a stern tone; for I d

overnment,

get the right sense of it. "I can't understand it, Josiah. We he

rerequisits of a senator. Why, what would a man wan

e your country

her so well as I do myself;

eamily, "or where was it? But surely I have heard of such things

y, "I calculate I can make jest as much out of her, give me a chance. Why, I calculate

Allen." Says I, "The majority hain't always r

he, goin' into the bedroom for a clean shirt

Why, what is the use of any man havin' more than one bureau? It is

t move will be to get 'em back agin. I'll bet there hain't a women in t

mmen will vote, do

e nation if she does. Wimmen is good in their places," says he, a

ledge of national affairs that we men have. They hain't got the hard horse sense that anybody has got to have in order to make money out of the nation. They would have some sentimental subjects up of right or wrong to spend their energies and their hearts on.

o goin' beyond the 20ethly. No preacher has any right to go to wanderin' round up beyond them figures in dog-days. And if

talkin' about bonnets, and things. Why! if a man could jest lift up his hand, and sa

him keenly,

w passed; that is, if wimmen co

bable. I calculate to jest straighten out things there, and ge

t, "it can have you, as

him if he laid out to sell our apples this year where he did last. The man's wife had wrote to me ahea

rshoes, "I shall probable have to use t

says I, in acc

ll tell you. I sha'n't have to buy near so many votes on account of my plan; but I shall have

He looked kinder pitiful at me (he loves me). But yet his love did not sof

t there is so much iniquity and cheatin' a goin' on now in politics, that I may have to give a bushel and a half, or two bushels: and the

s use of-wall, it hain't likely you will approve of it; but I say, stimulants are necessar

d holt of his arm, and say

ut the cup to your neighbor's lips, for your own gain? Do you

ighbors: I never n

you will be held accountable; and it seem

everybody else does so, w

or the tomb, but never commit this sin. 'Cursed i

f: they will drink out of gobblers" (sometimes when Josiah gets excited, he calls g

the different crimes you commit by that one act, Josiah Allen. You make a man a fool, and in that way put yourself down on a level with disease, deformity, and hereditary sin. You steal his reason away. You are a thief o

he commits suicide, your guilty soul shall cower in the presence of Him who said, 'No self-mu

o scare me to death?" and Josiah qua

Josiah Allen; and I should think

ll appear like a fool: I

duz want to b

ry to do right, try to do God's will, you have His a

k so sort o' skairful and r

the brink you wuz a standin'

ays, "My heart beats as if it wuz a tryin' to get out and walk

casticker tone t

r and above willin' to own up to it. Too much population of the heart has ailed many a

? And it is jest your skai

ld foller the business stiddy, of skairin' folks, and think I

nk more of you, if I see you a reelin' round yourself, than to see you make other folks ree

panion in danger of goin' aginst the Scripter-ready to steal, or

ool? I have told you more than a dozen times I have got to do

the air, and the strings of my head-dress a floatin' out behind me; and I'll bet there wu

an't reach out her lovin' hand, and help stiddy him; she can't do nothin' only jest sink. And what made it more curious, these despairin' thoughts come to me as I stood by the sink, washin' my dinner-dishes. But anon (I kn

orst fears are realized, try to keep him to home. For if his acts and words are like these in Jonesville, what will they be in Washington, D.C.,

orts at calmness, I grew more calmer and c

ever, and all excit

an there all ready, and he had begun to sculp her as a woman,-the goddess of Liberty, he called her. But at the last minute a dispute had rosen: some of the leadin' minds of Jonesville, uncle Nate Gowdey amongst 'em,

e waxed furious; a

antha: she'll kn

e. And he drove the old mare home, almost beyond

make 'em quick, and bake 'em quick. My mind wus fairly held onto that dough-and needed on it; but instinctively I told him he wus in the right ont.

rs!" say

ots, he might be depictered as settin' his boot-heel onto the respectful petition of fifty thousand wim

n, who had spent her whole noble, useful life in studyin' the laws of our nation, for darin' to think she had as much right u

mperious and showy a look as spurs would,

tion it to 'em; and says h

knew I wus right. I k

ill as death on politics; fur I could not help havin' some hopes that he might get sick of th

senator wus ever before him. The cares and burdens of political life seemed to be a loomin' up i

omon Cypher'ses shovel, and

t wus the spoi

such thing: it is Solo

e over to the other party. I am a Democrat, and this is party

ly, "You wo

t begin to practise sometime. I must begin to do as they all

carry that shovel right st

made

id

s honors and emollients. And often, and in dark hints, he would speak of his Plan. If every other means f

kitchen, "how her grandpa had got up somethin' that no other babe's grandpa had

hat I got in most as much agin lemon as I wanted in 'em. I wus a droppin' i

'em. And I truly felt that his plans wus liable

wouldn'

day of the shovel episode, along towards night he rousted ou

enough votes if we have

ly, my mind had been so strained and racked that I don't know as it w

you have to add a

n' sithe, but a despair

all get a hull lot

e?" s

r settlement jest the o

w they'll vote

vote aginst me!" says

intimidation,

s they ort to, lay out to take some shot-guns and make them niggers vote right; make 'em v

e you no fear of the Government? Do you want to be hung, an

tternesses, and race differences. The bloody shirt has been washed, and ironed out; and it wouldn't be right to dirty it up agin. The colo

couldn't help i

e any show at all in public life, I h

of water." But as he went out afte

ner more needed run?" and my

own on a hot gridiron wus animated by a more warm and martyrous feelin' of self-sacrifice. Yes, I truly felt, that if there wus dangers to be faced, and daggers

hington. And yet, when my mind roamed on some public men, and

Samantha must be at the hellum. But I also knew, that with a determined mind, and a willin' heart,

on the slate, to harden my mind, and help me grasp great facts, and meet difficulties bravely. I read Gass'es "Journal,"-how he rode up our great rivers on a perioger, and

irred up in my mind about him, so's to realize to the full my privileg

while I wus musin' on

' so close at that d

and noble G. Washington. I am going shortly to weep on his tomb and the capital he

the capital, you ha

, "Dan

ys he, "You had better study his in

of queer remarks, anyway. But deep. He had a sick spell a few weeks ago; and I went to see him the first thing in the mornin', after I heard

d about you: your pulse

eyes and his lips too. "I am glad I a

says,

paper, mother, I shouldn't be a su

s head. But he got over it: he always did have

ater; and though I love 'em both devotedly, I do, and I can't help it, like him jest a little mite the best. But this I wouldn't have get out for a thousand dollars. I tell it in strict confidence, and s'pose it will be kep' as such. Mebby I hadn't ort to tell it at all.

k, likes Tirza

ndependence, and Truth, and the Eagle. And thinkin' I might jest as well be to work while I was

e to have Ashes

lse peacible. I felt that this color, remindin' me of two grand heroes,-Bismark, John Brown,-suited me to a T. There wus two wimme

ade with

' to Washington on a tower, the neigh

atent Office, and get her two Patent-o

get him a paper of lettis seed. And Solomon Cypher wanted me to get

in' to be married soon, wanted me, if I see any new kinds of bed-quilt patterns to the White House, or to the senators' housen, to get the patterns for her. She said she wus sick of sunflowers, and blazin' star

aid, "he was goin' to get a pate

ent quilt, and wanted it appropriat

mbered seein' it. There wus some talk then about wimmen's rights, and a petition wus got up in Jonesville for wimmen to sign; and I remember well that Ardelia couldn't sign it for lack of time. She

nd couldn't be disturbed. So we didn't get the names. It took the old lady three years to quilt that quilt. And when it wuz done, it wuz a sight to behold. Though, as I said then, and say now, I wouldn't give much to sleep under so many animals. But folks went fr

of hisen to get it patented. And I thought to m

could, for a calf from Mount Vernon,-swop one of

I couldn't go into a calf-trade with my

urpy, a vegetable widow, come to see me; and the errents she sent by me wuz fur m

' 'em done, I felt that I would do the errents for her if a breath was left in my body. I felt that I w

uz middlin' glad to see her. But thinks'es I to myself as I carried away her things into

ked me the first thing when I got back "if I

w kind of tattin', mebby, or fancy work. And I told her "I shoul

he wanted me to

f waltz; and I told her "I was too old to lobby

wanted me to canvass

tius tone "how many she wanted canvasse

and, though I wanted to obleege Dorlesky, I didn't

ect, and said "she wanted her rights,

subject agin, "I hear that Josiah Allen

believe in bein' straightforward, and not holdin' out no false hopes,-I s

ll after her folks come after

ne it,-that, and wimmen's helpless condition under the law. And she cried, and wept, and cried about her children, and her sufferin's she had suffered; and I did. I cried onto my apron, and couldn't

d, and she wanted her rights; and she

would tell the President about it, and "I thought more'n as likely as not he would want to do right by

san wus a gettin' along. I hadn't heard from her for years-she married Philemon Claps

in the p

urpy!" says I. "

sister, Susan Clapsaddl

s I. "They was well off-Susan had five thous

gone. It has gone down Philemon Clapsaddle's throat. Look down that man's throat, and y

ee!"

, "You will see four mules, and a span of horses, two buggies, a double sleigh, and three buf

I agin. "And where

evil habits, and drink as bad as he duz;

a spell. And then, thinkin' I must say sunthin', and wanti

'es girl? that pretty girl

s in the lun

says I. "Be you a

the heat and the hard work overcome her, and she fell down in the street in a sort of a faintin'-fit, and was called drunk, and dragged off to a police court by a man who wus a animal in human shape. And he misused her in such a way, that she never got over th

d sot silent agin for quite a spell. B

unice is wel

lderin' in ja

unice Keele

sky's tone wus now like w

. Of course her taxes wus awful high; and she didn't expect to have any voice in tellin' ho

high for new sidewalks in f

and he had a spite aginst her, too, so he ordered her to build new sidewalks. And she wouldn't tear up a

o humbly. The Burpys are a humbly lot. But I didn't think it out loud. And I didn't uphold the law

did i

h ago; and she has got her grit up, and won't pay: and

s "mouldy;" but that is Dorlesky

ou think the weather

rn she would give to the conversation, bein' so embittered. But I felt the weather wus safe, and

ttered aginst men and the laws they have made; f

see a human creeter so afflicted as

s took down with billious colic voyolent four weeks before Dorlesky wus born; and some think it wus the hardness between 'em, and some think it wus the

brother. Her mother couldn't help herself: he had the law on his side. But it jest killed her. She drooped right away and died, be

you, it is pretty tough on a mother to have her baby, a part of

ost his property and his character, wus dissipated and mean (onbeknown, it wus s'posed, to Dorlesky's father). But the will was made, and the law stood. Men are ashamed now, to think the law wus ever in voge; but it wuz, and is now in some of the States. The law wus in voge, and the poor young mother cou

rty she had; while he sunk lower and lower, until at last he needed the very necessaries of life; and then

her so tight, jest reached out, and dragged her back agin. Upheld by them, her uncle could compel her to give her ser

rful arms that wuz protectin' her, helped her to slip through 'em. And Dorlesky come to Jonesville to live with a sister of that good woman; changed her name, so's

mixed up with a whisky-ring, whipped Dorlesky-not so very hard. He went accordin' to law; and the law of the United States don't approve of a man whippin' his wife enough to endanger her life-it says it don't. He made every move of hisen lawful, and felt that Dorlesky hadn't ort to complain and

llars for it. Of course, the law give the money to him, and she never got a cent of it. But she wouldn't never have made any fuss over that, knowin' that the law of the United States was such. But what made it gaulin' to her wuz, tha

wuz,-while she lay there, groanin' in splints, to have her husband take the

ailin' himself of the glorious liberty of our

re she wus fairly out of splints, he got a divorce from her. And by the help o

it over,-how she has been fooled round with by men, willed away, and whipped and parted with and stole from. Why, they can't blame her for feelin' fairly savage about

vinegar,-"and what few things there are that ha

her father's side, Patty Burpy, married for her first husband Eliphalet Perkins. He was a minister, rode on a circuit. And he took Patty on it too; and

thing to please him: so she rode round with him

ad hard times to get along. But what property they had wuzn't taxed,

axed it the very minute the breath left his body; run his horse, so it was

e law thought, seem' she was a havin' trouble, she might jest as well have a l

law is quite thoughtful of wimmen, by spells. It says, the law duz, that it protects wimmen. An

that it was s'posed she wanted to settle down, and be kinder still and sot. But of all the bad luck she had! She marrie

the country, and loved to live in the wagon: it was his make. And, of course, the law give him the control of her body; and she had to go where he moved it, or else part with him. An

regular B

in' to foller the laws of his country, as tight as laws could be follered. And so, knowin' that the law approved of "moderate correction" for wimmen, and that "a man might whip his wife, but not enough to endanger her life," he bein' such a maste

ut all one woman could bring up well "by hand," when that one hand wuz so awful full of work, as will be told more ensuin'ly. But he felt that big families wuz a protection

th, and spin and weave the cloth for their clothes (as wimmen did in them days), and then make 'em, and keep 'em clean. And when there wuz so many of 'em, and only about a year's difference in the

so high and loyal, he felt that

shows that she did have her good streaks, and a deep reverence for the

ighed 80 pounds the most, and might hav

reamble; so she stood it to be whipped, and never once wh

nths difference in the age of that and the one next older. And

, I have alway

ught wus a great comfort t

e did, leaving his 2nd wife w

siderable good-lookin', and played well on the fiddle. Why, it seemed as if he had almost every qualification for makin' a woman

United States, she wouldn't have complained only when she had company. But it was m

use, and stay most of the day, shiverin', and unde

re grocery-stores, that he wus a law-abidin' citizen

onary 4 mothers in thinkin' out new laws, when she lay r

ed." And if you don't believe it, you ort to have peeked round them barrells, and seen Abagail's eyes. Why, t

n. For there wuzn't nothin' illegal about one single trouble of theirn. They

d is another drawback to 'em; though that, t

agin as she would otherway

ew set of teeth on her upper jaw. And they sort o' sot out, and made her look so bad that it fairly made her ache to look at her

suit. And the law bein' such that a woman can't testify in court in any matter that is of mutual inte

chin', and her face all pokin' out, and lookin' like furyatio

t her gooms, and her discouraged and mad feelin's every time she looks in a glass, that helps to embitter her t

isin' at the last minute as sacred as I could,

she said the man where she worked was usin' his horse

ody eat any more supper after

I didn't think. No better t

for is deef, deef as a post,-and I a noddin' to her firm, honorable nods, that I would do 'em), and I wus a slickin' up the settin'-r

that very night to tell her I wus goin' away, an

while I wus gone. She looked dretful pale and sad, I thought; but she seemed glad to see me, and glad to get back. And t

d I wus all alone in her room. And, if you'll believe it

man to make; how I have thrown my heart and life into the work,-but I have done no good. That letter," says she, takin' one out of her pocket, and throw

omply with some request she had made about h

eckuted that very minute! Why, I'd done it m

boy, I demurred in my own mind, and kep' a demurrin'. Thinks'es I, how can I stand it, as tired as I expect to be, to have him

once, and says with a cheerfu

hree will embark to

in talk, about her aunt Mary, and her aunt Melissa, and her aunt Mary's daughter, who wus a runnin' down, runnin' faster than ever, so I judged from what she said. And how Sus

kin'-chair. And she looked dretful good to me. She had on a white dress. She most always wears white in t

Her hands wus clasped over her knees; and her hair, which the boy had got loose a playin' with her, wus fallin' round her face and neck. And her great, earnest eyes wus lookin' into the West, and the light from the su

her than Jonesville, further than the lake that lay beyend Jonesville, and which was pure gold now,-a sea of glass mingled with fire,-further tha

didn't feel like talki

what do you suppose I thought when dear

don't know, dea

oved her so dearly, I almost wishe

t did you wish that for? and thinki

hen they were here; and I felt, that with such a love as theirs, death would only make their souls nearer: and you know what the Bible says,-that 'God shall make of his angels ministering spirits;' and I know He would send no other angel but my mother, to dear aunt Mary's bedside, to take her spirit home. And I thought, that, if I were ther

ext?" But I didn't say a word, mind you, not a single word would I s

s, in calm

ke, child, talk of se

at deep, searchin', but soft gaze,-seemin' to look clear th

od enough, I

ound your shoulders." Says I, "The weather is very ketchin', an

and asked me 75 questions

tched with bait, or with a hook, and

what a time

t up. I carried up her breakfast with my own hands,-a good

n the height of the fashion, to Jonesville; and so to ease Martha's mind (she is one that gets deprested easy, when weighty subjects are pressin' her down), I said I would run over cross-lots, and carry home a drawin'

ou doin' h

ne of the peculiarities of the boy, you can'

for all the world as if I ha

I thought I got a glimpse of it a minu

for what?

ow, uncle Josiah read about it this morning, out of that big book

ere the City was, and she said it was up in the heavens. And I asked her if I should ever see it; and she said, if I was good

as three hours, I should think. And say, how long have you got to be good bef

most out of

d s

ay" just as I got o

good;" and he wus considerable cross all that afternoon. But he got clever agin before bedtime. And he

is mouth awful good and sweet. And his curls wus kinder moist, and hung down o

te a spell, a thinkin'; a

l I see my father

t to tell him; for yo

are mur

tes and their influence to make it right? They vote on Saturdays, to make the sale of this poison legal, and on Sundays go to church with their respectable families. And they expect to go ri

nswer; and his eyes loo

now, that is what mamma cries so for,-she wants him so bad. And do

hought of wh

shall inherit

w what to say, and I

spoke out entirely unbek

see thr

what?" says Josiah, w

derers are punished, and them that make 'em dr

h any thing here-dark as pitch." Here he

ect." Here he stubbed his foot aginst the rockin'-chair,

ong, that a man can't drink milk por

the floor, Josiah Allen, and I'll light a lamp," wh

an. Liquor is good for sickness, and you kno

if I should say I didn't, I should be a lyin', which I am fur from wantin' to do at my age. I think it kep' mother Allen alive for years, jest as I believe arsenic b

r a treat, or pass it round amongst your friends. You don't want to play with fire for fun,

If I had my way, Josiah Allen," says I firmly, "the hull liquor-trade should be in the hands of doctors, who wouldn't sell a drop wi

ays Josiah in a gruff tone (I

e is one good, reliable man left

'ly. "I am gettin' pretty old to begin it, but

much study to deal out a dose of salts

ve come out alive, out of all your other plans and progects, and

airful, that he gin up the idee, and