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 And I sez reasonable, "I don't believe that there are any natives round here, not more than one, anyway—I hearn there is one old Injun basket maker tentin' in the woods back of Sylvester Bobbettses, but it hain't no ways likely he will come."

She sez, "I mean the folks that live round here."

"Oh," sez I, "I guess they will turn out first rate, it is a real charitable place here."

"I want your help," sez she; "do help me by talkin' it up to people, won't you?"

And I told her I would, "For," sez I, "Charity never faileth, and," sez I, "if I wuz not interested in charity I should feel like soundin' brass and tinklin' cymbal, not that I know what a cymbal is, but suppose it is a brass horn."

"Yes," sez she, "charity for the heathen is the main work of course, but socially I want it to be a great success."

I had told her, when I first went in, that I couldn't stay long, and had refused to take off my bunnet, so pretty soon she mentioned she wuz goin' to a lawn party to a neighborin' hotel that afternoon, and asked me if I would feel hurt if she went on dressin' while she talked to me, and I told her no, and I sez, "Josiah is liable to come any minute, he'll come jest as soon as he makes his dicker."

So her maid proceeded to put on her shoes, she had got her underclothes all on and wuz in her dressin' jacket and slippers. She had handsome silk stockin's on, embroidered beautiful, but she wuz cut out for a big, fat woman, and her feet wuz big, they wuz at the least calculation number five feet, but the shoe that maid tried to get on them feet wuzn't more than number three. I