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 *pected, she can't help smoothin' back her front hair if every hair lay as smooth as satin, it is nater for her to go through the motions. And she can't help jumpin' if she sees a mouse as if she wuz afraid of her life, though it hain't reasonable to expect that her life is jeapordized and she will be attackted by it. And it is nater for her to kiss a pretty baby and scold a boy voyalently who is stunnin' a kitten or a bird. Why, some things come jest as nateral as Nater herself, and can't be helped no more than she can. Josiah hain't alone in his actin' and behavin'.