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 round out doors for fear he would soil that beautiful new suit. "You know," sez she, "your Ma done that for you when she couldn't hardly lift her head from the pillow. It almost killed your Ma, that work did."

I see at this Jack's little face grew overcast with a couple of shadders. One wuz cast from the martyr's cloudy brow, no doubt the thought of killin' his Ma wuz more or less painful to him, and the other and deeper shadder wuz that he couldn't run round free as the young colts that wuz prancin' about the medder by the side of the house. His poor little legs wuz jest achin' to jump and bound and curvit round, and there they wuz doomed to imprisonment in a braided fortress. Oh, my! I wuz sorry for Jack, sorry as I could be. Well, Tamer and I sot there and had quite an agreeable visit, Tamer has her properties, though she is sot and overbearin', I mean when she is herself, more'n half the time I do believe she imagines herself a Female Amazonian or a African Princess or sunthin'.

We talked about the different relations on both sides, and quite a good deal about my grandchildren; she talked middlin' agreeable, but what I can't understand in her is her total lack of good judgment. Why, she said that there had been other little girls that looked jest as well as Tirzah Ann's youngest, little Anna Thyrza, and she said she didn't like the name, and if Tirzah had called her after herself she ort to called her Tirzah Ann. Sez I, "We call her Delight, she don't hardly know she has got any other name, and," sez I, "our daughter can't bear the name of Tirzah Ann, she thinks it is so old fashioned and humbly, and so I don't know that she is so much to blame for naming her in