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 *way—they wuz plenty big enough, and I admitted it. And I spoze her freedom from foot sufferin' helped her a great sight, and her winder wuz always open nights. She had got to likin' me too well to not do as I said, and when she see me calmly carryin' the pickle jar down suller and put a stun on it, she knew that ended pickles; and when she asked Josiah to git her some candy and I calmly took it and eat it up myself, makin' me dead sick, but doin' it cheerful in a martyr way, she didn't ask him agin to git her anything sarahuptishously, and it wuzn't long before her well stomach didn't crave such trash—rich cake and pickles and pies and such. And she begun to git so plump that she laughed and said I would have to let out her dresses agin.

And I did before she went home—more than a inch on both sides—and her cheeks got pinker and her eyes got brighter and brighter, and I didn't wonder a mite that the kinds of air she had to ride out to take wuz so various and lay in such different directions, and young Dr. Phillip wuz so willin' to take her to 'em.

Well, Dora had wanted to surprise her mother when she come to see her so much better, so we hadn't said nothin' in our letters about the great improvement and change in her, and the very day that Dr. Phillip and she went out on a two milds walk, two out and two in, I got a letter from Albina Ann sayin' she had seen a new kind of invalid chair and askin' me to ask the doctor if he thought it would be a benefit to Dora, and sez she:

"Your evasive remarks about my poor dear invalid makes me fear that I shall never see her agin, and," sez she, "I drempt last night of attendin' a funeral, and I lay for more than an hour planning the funeral