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"Well, there was Joan of Arc: she delivered the goods." "To be sure; she does rather light up her time, doesn't she?" laughed Sylvia. "Sylvia, the day I first saw a woman hammer a typewriter in a man's office, I thought the end had come. It seemed, as the saying is, 'agin nater'; and I reckon it was. Nowadays these buildings downtown are full of women.
There had been a fall of snow the night before, as if nater had done her best for the occasion and spread her white ermine down for the feet of the angel, Thanksgivin'. Philury got breakfast most ready by candle light, and I'd been bein' thankful ever since she put the tea kettle over. "Josiah," sez I, "do you realize what a glorious day this is and how much, how much we have to be thankful for?"
How queer human critters be! what strange and mysterious tacts they will git on and how they will foller up them tacts and fads of theirn. But I d'no as human critters are any worse about follerin' up their tacts and fads and follerin' 'em blind, than old Mom Nater is. Now who hain't noticed her queer moods and how prolonged they be, and how sudden and onexpected they will come onto her?
"Dolly's an old goose, so don't you mind her, for she will say 'nater, 'vittles, and 'doos' as long as she lives, and insist that they are right.
"Well, now, that's something like," returned the dame, with a smile that was intended to be a complimentary one; "and shows, jest as clear as any thing, that thar is a few streaks o' human nater in you arter all." Then, as if fearful the permission would be countermanded, the good lady at once set off in haste to join her adopted daughter.
Well, when the sap begins to get a free run, I hang over the kettles, and set up the bush. My first boiling I push pretty smartly, till I get the virtue of the sap; but when it begins to grow of a molasses nater, like this in the kettle, one mustnt drive the fires too hard, or youll burn the sugar; and burny sugar is bad to the taste, let it be never so sweet.
Smiling knowingly, she whispered to herself, "'Nater is the same everywhere," and the good lady bustled in and out, bringing her choicest bits and richest cake in honor of her pet's return. That night, freed from boarding-school restraint, Rosamond slept soundly in her own pleasant chamber, but to Ralph Browning, pacing up and down his room, there came not a moment of unconsciousness.
Perkins, said she, 'there's something the matter with my child; I'm sure there is, though he won't own it. He has lost his appetite had a headache last night. 'Nothing the matter, ma'am, says I; 'wish you'd think more of yourself. "These mothers are silly, anxious, poor creatures. Nater, sir, Nater wonderful thing Nater! Here we are."
And then Josiah would come a-rushin' in after one thing and another, actin' as was natural, accordin' to the nater of man, more like a wild man than a Christian Methodist. For he was so wrought up and excited by havin' so much on his hands to do, and the onexpectedness of it, that he couldn't help actin' jest as he did act. I don't believe he could.
Why, Nater had layed down laws before Elder Wessel did; he couldn't keep her from thinkin' about her future mate; she would let her mind dwell on some one if it wuz only the man in the moon. And I knew the world wuz full of bad men as well as good men. How would it be with her if thrown with a wolf in sheep's clothing?
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