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His curiosity grew so great that several times he was almost at the point of going to see for himself; but one morning, early, when an opportunity to do so was suddenly presented, his courage failed him. His mother had just come into the log cabin from the hen-house with a woe-begone face. "I do declar'!" she exclaimed solemnly, "that I'm surely the afflictedest 'oman on G'liath Mounting!
"Surely I am the afflictedest 'oman on G'liath Mounting! An' ter-morrer Brother Pete's wife an' his gals air a-comin', and I hed laid off ter hev raised bread." For "raised bread" is a great rarity and luxury in these parts, the nimble "dodgers" being the staff of life. "I never went ter do it," muttered Nick.
But, after they had laughed awhile, the queen said to Filostrato, "Assuredly, if thou afflictedest us ladies yesterday, thou hast so tickled us to-day that none of us can deservedly complain of thee."
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