ry Mesick, the girl Ury was payin' attention to, and who was goin' to keep my house durin'

jest as anybody wants her to. She is a girl that Miss Solomon Gowdey kinder took. And I think, if there is

of a grindstun. Philury said Miss Gowdey's little boy broke the grindstun, and the boy laid it to Philury. Anyway, the grindstun wus broke, and it made a hardness. And when Philury left Miss Gowdey's, all her worldly wealt

to wear stockin's; so I told her, that, besides her wages, she might have all the

led enough a

n spin enough to last

do much for you on account of that hardness about the grindstun; and knowin' that you hain

he expected to marry Ury som

"you can spin

n' and clever, that I guess, if I had asked her to jump into the o

e more bakin' wouldn't hurt her

d that is more than I can say for some f

and up fo

Philury and Ury wus clever, and would do well by him. And the cubbard wus full and overflowin'

ave worked Josiah up dretfully if we hadn't been. For he had spent the most of the latter part of the night in ge

ute, as you may say, who should come a runnin' down to the depot b

waitin'-room, and asked me "if I would

o steal, and he owned up that it did. But he wuzn't goin

in such a witherin' way, that I should most probable have withere

it was no worse than to give lic

nto every kind of wickedness. But he didn't ask that. He wanted things done fair and square: he jest wanted to steal horses. He was goin' We

the cars snorted, and I wus glad they did. They seemed to ex

id

e shades of twilight was a shadin the earth gently;

ade it seem more singular). We told him to take us right to Miss Condelick Smith'ses

society," as she wrote to me when she heard I wus a comin' to Washington. She said we had got to go to he

t warmly. She had been over a hot fire a cookin'. She

don't hurt her any. Wens hain't nothin'

3. A good, fat boy, with white hair and blue eyes, and a grea

o go up into our rooms, and bathe our weary fac

slip once in a while. I should, myself, if my mind wuzn't like iron for strength. There wus only three or four to the table besid

'em; and Cicely and I would pass the time by guessin', from their demeaners, how long they had been married. You know

this young pair, I

day

, and I see she was a layin' up trouble for herself. Amongst other good things, they had a baked ch

s imma

ked the bride, she blu

a piece of the

I said to her in a low ton

r your groom. Try to stand up on your own feet, and be a helpmate to him, not a dead weight for him to carry. Do branch right out, and tell what part of the fowl, or of life, you want, if it hain't nothin' but the gizzard or nec

d so Duty bein' appeased, and atten

couldn't get up at all. She wuzn't sick, only j

irst thing, so as to leave my mind and my

e 'em right off the first thing. The President, and lots of 'em, I knew would take i

he President anyway. And I thought I would tend

too. He had a little black velvet suit and a deep lace collar, and his gold curls was a hangin' down under his little black velvet cap. They made him look more ba

benign face on the top of the monument, and wondered what he'd say if he see it, and hefted my emotions I had when causin' it to be made for my tower. I realized as I meandered along,

in' Dorlesk

dress, a good solid brown (that same color, B. B.). And my usial long green veil, wi

wus both dignity and principle in its hang. It giv

wn the broad, beautiful str

, two double wagons can go by each other with perfect safety, right in front of the grocery stores,

s, and not touch each other, and then there would be lots of room for men and wimmen, and for

't expect to. Why, Jonesville streets are like tape compared with 'em;

ith the President's hired man,

ty of Jonesville: and here I be, on a deep, heart-searchin' errent to the Nation. So I said, in word

nt of the Unite

unthin' about his not rece

I like to put folks at their ease,

dressed up-of course he wuzn't expectin'

ing about "he didn't kn

at for three years, right along. And if he is engaged, it hain't no good reas

inally, "I will t

if I had 'em right here in my pocket, or a set of dominoes, I shouldn't expect to take up the time of the President of the United State

hamed; and he said "he would

I follered, and the boy. Bub

walked sort o' slow, out of courtesy. But, good land! how little tha

" Oh the grandeur of my feelin's! The nobility of

ts the hired man intruded with his fr

ot knowin' whether the Presiden

m that lofty piller I had tro

essed up or not. I come on principle, and I sha

ed agin (he was ashamed), "have yo

e air nobly, and never turned to

have heard that they did such things here in Washington, D.

tin'-house" struck a fearful blow aginst m

woman's eye, but the eye of a Methodist. My duty draws me:-po

a talkin' about the

irst place? The idee of skairin' folks! or tr

painted our meetin-house over at a cost of upwards of 28 dollars. But it didn't come up to this-not half. President Arthur has got good taste; an

t myself. And that is sayin' a great deal," says I. "I am always very put

ired man opened a door into a lo

o it. I had heard of their cuttin' up anticks at Washington,-I had come prepared for it; but I didn't know as they was bold enough to come right out, and have rooms devoted to that purpose. And I looked

I was right in the midst of dangers. I had feared and foreboded,-oh, how I had feared and foreboded about the dangers and deep perils of Wa

hankful I wuz, that Jos

hers. And I felt stronger than ever the deep resolve that Josiah Allen should not run. He must no

gentleman, should come to have a room called like that, but s'posed it was

this when the hired ma

ent would r

lmly, "I am ready

iful room, kinder round, and red colored, with lot

to have been afraid and hung back; he was dressed up slick-slick enough for meetin', or a p

he had a middlin' tired look in hi

r of the (nearly) angel Garfield. I had thought that likely as not, entirely unbeknown to me, I should soar right off into a eloquent oration. For I h

when we get there! As I stood before him, I only said what I had said befor

I have

d fairly solemn; but, as he is a perfect gentleman, he controlled h

e you

chair for me with his own hands (hands that grip holt of the same hellum that G. W. had grippe

ir, adjusted my green veil in long, graceful folds,-I hain't vain, but I

him from Jonesville,-one for mys

ornin' when he has got his milkin' and barn-chores done, so it didn't surprise me. An

my love and devoti

, "he had h

spread, bein' a sort of a rarity. I'd heard that i

"it was spoke

n on my goose-feather pillow at home, in peace and safety, while my pardner was a grapplin' with dangers of which I did not know the exact size and heft. And so I had made up my mind to come ahead of him, as a forerunner on a tower, to see jest what the dangers wuz, and see if I dast trust my companion there. "And now," says I, "I want you to tell me candid," say

of a man it is that comes." Then was a tryin' time for me. I would not lie, ne

traits and qualities

n, and told of Josiah's political aims, which I considered dangerous to himsel

usted, but never knew, that Josiah had wrote to him all his political views and aspiration

u see he is a good

rt o' dreamily,

siah Allen and America if he come. And a musin' on all the probable dangers of the Plan. And a thi

to me too deep to bear, and I says in almo

ington? Would it be safe for Josiah, safe for th

ld you dast to

aspirations of Josiah's wasn't really needed at

answer to ease my mind and heart.

a sensible, candid look onto him. He liked me,-I knew he did f

t plan; and I see that he considered Washington a dangerous, dangerous place for grangers and Josiah Allens to be a roam

and gentlemanly dignity, was wrote down on his linement. Even the red ro

l agin, if I hadn't uttered once more the

d to overpower for a moment the

what I think, I would not like to say it officially, but

sha'n't go

n everybody that i

will tell you.

nited-States senator." And says I, "You have only confirmed my fears. I knew, fe

ld to me in confidence, and agin I

jest out of courtesy and politeness, and I know it. And I can be very po

s to me; and I want to say right here, that Jo

he wus a lookin' back over a hard road, "I

And wantin' to encourage

angel has jest vacated, a high chair under the full glare of critical inspection, is a tegus place. I don't s'pos

ll. With dignity and courtesy and prudence. And w

we wuzn't suited with him. And it took a load offen hi

' a little, "I have got t

ld gladly have refrained from troubling him more. But dut

ne measurin' jest about the same,

p. She wanted you to drink nothin' stronger than root-beer when you had company to dinner, she offerin' to send

ther than his linement fell. I pitied him. I see it wus

next week. But she has suffered dretfully from intemperance, dretfully from the Rings, and dretfully

e in the side. I wus determined to do the errent jest as I would wish a errent done for me, from borryin'

e things, she would have you removed from the Presidenti

as if I should sink: it seemed to me jest as if Dorlesky

went on and told him all how she and her relations had suffered from want of rights, and how dretfully she had suffered from the Ring, till I declare, a talkin about them lit

t, I see he had a sort of a worr

ed States are such, t

don't you make the Un

ut the might of the major

t round the United States, and let a lot of whiskey-dealers lead her round, a pitiful sight for men an

it looked bad, I

is bad for Dorlesky, a

e "revenue that the liquor-tra

of drunken men to do any thing but wobble and stagger round; loss of wealth, by all the enormous losses of property and of taxation, of almshouses and madhouses, jails, police forces, paupers' coffins, and the digging of the thousands and thousands of graves that are filled yearly by them that reel into 'em." Say

ent, he did. Every honorable man feels so in his heart; and

whiskey-dealers jest where they want to drive 'em." Says I, "It controls New-York village, and nobody pretends to deny it; and all the piety and phi

to? Is it' a drawin' 'em down into a slavery ten times more abject and soul

e. There is no frame to that reply. It is a conundrum as boundless as truth and God's justice, a

g a drawin' the United States?

riner man I don't want to see. "Ah, yes! I would be glad, Josiah Allen's wife, to do her errent. I think Dorlesky

o is the ma

"James G.

I will go right to

n all engaged lookin' out of the

something agreeable, I s'pose, seein' he couldn't do the err

n, are you a Republ

a Epis

onto theoligy instead of politics, and

entleman wh

gh theoligy, so's to tackle sunthin' else. He answere

and breathed into. I am m

t how true it wuz! The divine and the human, linked so close together from birt

But the boy branched off quick, for he

se for? Is it because it is to help white fol

he South, and the Congressional vote for cuttin' down the money for the Indian

dreamily, "No, it

hite,-a pearl, you know,-because every thing was pure and white inside the Ci

oked dark and bi

gton up on top of that

a grea

How many yards did it

d noble deeds-he

mself. And I rose against him, and we fought and bled: my nose bled, and so did his. But I got it away from him, and chewed it myself. But mamma punished me, and said; God wouldn't love me if I quarrelled s

ht for L

he ge

the United State

it f

off that question,

is there a great big ring put all round it, an

excitement; and he kep' right on witho

ll it, and he wanted it. His mother wouldn't let him steal it; but if the United States could make it right for him to do wrong, he had got ten cents of his own, and he'd buy the right to get that white rat. And

w bigger and bigger with surprise and anxiety. I guess he thought he had got his day's

ouse to supper when you come." Says I, "I can't reccomend the huntin' so much; there haint nothin' more excitin' to shoot than red squirrels a

"when he visited Jonesville, he w

u jest enquire at the Corners of old Gro

d "he wouldn't fail to

the boy by voyalence, for he was a askin' questions agin, faster than ever; and he poured out over his shoulder a partin' dribble of questions, that l

gton jest as quick as he ketch

ruth so's to be stood up on pillows outdoors, and not be a layin' down in the grass? And did the little hatchet help him do

0 questions to a lamp-post, for I c

his eyes danced so, and he was so awful pretty, that I felt in the midst of my deep fag, that I could ki