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 She wuz dretful willin' to come home with us, and we wuz dretful willin' she should come, which made it willin' all round, and agreeable. She thinks as much of Josiah and me as she duz of her Pa and Ma. And I made her a bed on the lounge in our room, and it did seem good to have her there. We took sights of comfort.

Her little appetite wuz excellent, and it wuz a great comfort to me to cook things she called for. I can tell you it brought back old times when her Ma and uncle, Thomas J., wuz little children, every time I baked turn-*overs for her. And when I fried cakes it did seem so good to fry men and wimmen and children and every livin' animal I could think on for her. And it seemed as if I couldn't hardly satisfy her on the animals. I do believe I fried every critter I ever hearn on, unless it wuz a hyena, and it kinder seems as if I fried one of them one day, but I won't say for certain, maybe it wuz a catamount, they look some alike, anyway.

But we did enjoy havin' her there the best that ever wuz. When she got up in the mornin' and come to us with her great bright eyes dancin', and the mornin' light shinin' on her wavin' hair, it almost seemed as if it wuz our lost youth comin' back towards us with immortal hope and gladness in its glances. We loved her so, she wuz so much a part of our own hearts and lives that it seemed as if our love for her and our tender pride and happiness in her, carried us back into the Long Ago. And we could almost fancy she wuz one of our youthful dreams gin back to us and made real.

Oh, we took sights and sights of comfort with her, I don't think we love her any better than we did her Ma and Uncle, Thomas J., I know we don't, and I don't