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I always did kinder like to have onexpected company, it seems as though I always have a better visit with 'em, and I felt as pleasant as the day, which wuz a beautiful one, when two loads of company driv up entirely onexpected about an hour before noon, Tamer Ann Allen and Jack and Tirzah Ann and little Delight, all happenin' to come at almost the same time, and we had a real good visit. Tamer had concluded to stop a day longer so's to visit me. I had got my work all done and a good dinner started, and wuz standin' on the porch lookin' onto the environin' seen when they all driv up most together, though comin' from two different ways.

I wuz jest noticin' how sweet the posies wuz that grew by the back porch, and how full the hearts of the roses wuz with perfume, and how the pink and pale-blue bells of the mornin' glories seemed fairly swingin' to onseen music, to show their delight at openin' their eyes onto such a fair world. The far-off hills towered up clad in deathless green and leaned aginst the sky as if real contented and glad to be there. The blue sky, flecked with little snowy clouds, looked down sweet and smilin' on Jonesville and the world. The meadows and pastures smiled up at the bendin' sky, the trees, all washed off by the shower of the night before, glistened and shook out their velvet and shinin' foliage, and the grass wuz flecked with sunshine embroidered with daisies.