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 And sez I in a cursory way, for I will not hint or meddle, "You whipped little Kate for staying one hour beyend her time, and we have stayed three."

"Well," sez she, "I told her to be home in an hour."

"That is jest what she told you to do," sez I.

"And," sez she, "she promised."

"So did you promise sacred."

Sez she, "A child is under greater obligations to her parents than the parents are to her."

"I think they hain't under half so much obligations, for it is the parents doin's gittin' 'em here, the children didn't git the parents here, it is right the other way."

"Oh, well, it is different, anyway. Kate is a child, and we are grown folks."

"So much more the reason for us that we should behave ourselves and not go to lyin' and bein' led off into temptation as we have to-night, Sister Gowdey. We are both Methodists."

The words sunk deep, I see they did, though she only sez:

"I do hope Mr. Gowdey hain't got supper, a man tears up things so and wastes. I would as soon have a tornado sweep through my buttery as to have a man sweep through it."