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Well, to resoom backwards for a spell. Josiah and I wuzn't goin' to stay only two days and one night, but, good land! they wouldn't hear a word to our goin' so soon, so we stayed three days right along. But then, as Tamer said, think of the visits that they had made to us that wuz onpaid. Well, I thunk on 'em and thought likely as not it wuz our duty to stay. But I see lots of things there I didn't like to see. I hate to talk about relations; I don't think it the right thing to do. But I can't help sayin' that I did see lots of things that relations; I don't think it the right thing to do. But I can't help sayin' that I did see lots of things that I wanted changed. Not Anna, she wuzn't one of the things I wanted changed, no, indeed! she and Jack wuz the flowers of the family in full blow. Anna is jest as different from the rest of her family as light is from darkness, and a good deal the same way, and I believe Jack would come up a good deal like her if he got a chance.

One reason is why Anna is so different from her Ma, she wuz brung up by a aunt of her father's, brung up by hand by Aunt Judith Smith, who, bein' a old maid, couldn't, it stands to reason, bring her up in any other way. For years after Anna wuz born Tamer wuz really sick, and this aunt lived with 'em and took care of Anna