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 and get the doctor out o'bed such a cold night without nay makin' myself miserable over it."

"Then the doctor came afterwards; did you go after him?"

"Me go after him! no, guess I didn't. I'd a' set it myself first. One o' the neighbors happenin' to be out late come home jest then and see what was goin' on, and he went and got him. I guess he thought he never should grow very rich on such practice for he never got his pay. I might have paid him."

"Why didn't you? I should have thought you would from a sense of honor, if nothing more, when he had to get up at midnight too, which is worse than daytime."

"Did you 'spose I'd be so green as that, to pay him when I had all the wust of it."

"He was not to blame for what your husband did, and I think he had the worst of it."

"Yes he was to blame, or somebody else jest like him, to let such stuff be sold that will make a man act so like a heretic, and then throw all the trouble of him on his wife. No, he didn' come that over me. Once they brought him, so drunk they wouldn't have him in the rum shop, home to me to take care of, and that was all well enough."

"Let that be as it may; you married him, which you ought not to have done unless you loved him; and then, if he had lived as long, and acted as bad as Amelia's father, you wouldn't have it in your heart to talk so about him now he is dead."