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 But at last he did go downstairs, and I follered him, and he turned round in the settin' room and faced me, and in a honest way that would be invaluable in a doctor if follered up, he sez:

"What is really the matter with her, Aunt Samantha?"

And I sez, "A lack of common sense in her mother, or that is what started the trouble in the first place." Sez I in a sort of a blind way, "There is mebby other complications now that will have to be tended to."

And I walked off into the buttery. I wuzn't goin' to mention Le Flam to him, no, indeed! and when I come out I brung a plate of cream cookies; he likes my cookies to a extraordinary degree, and these wuz jest out of the oven, and he eat three, and then went away with one in his hand. He appreciates good cookin', yes, indeed!

Well, the next mornin' bright and early young Dr. Phillip wuz there agin with a pink rose in his buttonhole (I never see that before), and he made a long call, and so the next day, and the next, and the next, and she a-gainin' all the while and beginnin' to talk real bright and chipper to him, and the seventh young Dr. Phillip said it would help her to ride out that very day, for the air wuz jest exactly right.

And I sez, "Well, I don't know what I can do, for Josiah is away with both horses."

And he sez dreamily, "Yes, I met him, but," sez he, "as it happens I took my low, easy phaeton this afternoon, and I can take her for a short ride as well as not."

And I sez, "Won't to-morrow do?"

And he sez, "No, for to-day the air is jest exactly right."