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 But, no, he would do jest as he wanted to, and contended that he should wear it, for he didn't lay out to mourn a great deal. He said they wuzn't any real relation to us, and they wuz on my side what they wuz, and, sez he, "I lay out to wear a pale-blue necktie."

But I broke that up. He couldn't find it at the last minute, and had to wear a black one. Jack had on his little blue suit, but I tied a black ribbon round his neck under his collar; he looked good, anyway. We left Delight to home and went on, with Jack settin' between us and askin' questions most all the time.

We got to the house about half-past ten—the funeral wuz at eleven. We could told the house anyway, there wuz so many teams standin' round the door and in front of the barn, and horses hitched all along the fence, and they had took down a length of fence by the orchard and lots of teams wuz hitched in there. There wuz top buggies, one or two autos, democrats, double wagons with chairs in 'em for seats, and one or two buckboards and some bicycles leanin' aginst the piazza steps. There wuz lots of folks present; Grandma Bodley wuz respected.

We went through the front door into the big, lonesome-lookin' hall, the light comin' through fanlights by the side and over the door with narrer green paper curtains in front of 'em. The parlor and settin' room wuz to each side of the hall, and to the end of it wuz a big, old-fashioned kitchen, part of it carpeted, which they used for a winter dining room; the summer kitchen wuz back on't. The chairs wuz all put in the parlor—where the body wuz—for the family to set on, and in the settin' room and kitchen long boards wuz put, the ends layin' on kags and sap buckets. And the neighbors had