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 I liked Tom Willis. He wuz studyin' law under Thomas Jefferson, he had been under him for several years now, and Thomas J. thought everything of him, and said he wuz bound to make his mark in the world. Yes, I liked Tom and Tom liked me. But I had never seen the old young man till the day we went there a-visitin', bein' invited special by Tamer.

It wuz a pleasant drive over there, and I got up middlin' early and got a good breakfast, a very good one, knowin' that my Josiah's demeanor for the day depended a good deal on it. And I wanted his liniment to be smooth and placid, for nothin' gauls a woman more than to have her companion kinder snappish to her when she takes him out in company. She knows the wimmen are all comparin' his liniment with their own husband's liniments, and she wants him to show off to good advantage. She has a pride in it.

So I cooked, in addition to my other vittles, a young tender chicken, briled it, and had some nice warm biscuit, and some coffee, rich, yellow, and fragrant, with lots of good cream in it. And I had other good things accordin'. I did well, and Josiah's liniment paid me; all the way to Hamenses his mean wuz like a babes for softness and reposeful sweetness. He twice murmured words of affection into my right ear, he sez, "Dear Samantha," twice, such wuz the stimulatin' and softenin' effects of that coffee and broiled fowl. Oh! if female wimmen would only heed these words of warnin' and caution from their sincere friend and well wisher. If they would only spend the strength they take to try to convince their pardners that it is onmanly to snap 'em up and be fraxious and puggecky to 'em, especially before folks and other wimmen, if they would only spend