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Such being my claim on the consideration of Ardelia, no one will, I think, grudge me the possession of this unknown volume of her works in manuscript. It came into my hands by a strange coincidence.
Barnabas and Ardelia were invited. Strickland Morley was invited also. Morley, at that time I saw a good deal of him afterward, when he was at Bayport and when I was at the Cahoon house on holidays and vacations was a handsome, aristocratic young Englishman. He was twenty-eight, but he looked younger.
I've thought it all out, Hosy. Ever since Ardelia and I had that last talk together and she whispered to me that that well, especially ever since I knew there was a Little Frank I've been thinkin' and plannin' about that Little Frank; you know I have. He she isn't the kind of Little Frank I expected, but she's, my sister's baby and I can't I CAN'T, turn her away to be sick and die. I can't do it.
When at length the Earl began to suffer from the gout, his faithful family songster recorded that also in her amiable verse, and prayed that "the bad disease" May you but brief unfrequent visits find To prove you patient, your Ardelia kind. No one can read her sensitive verses, and not be sure that she was the sweetest and most soothing of bed-side visitants.
And then I remembered seein' it. There wuz a petition fer wimmen's rights and I remember Ardelia couldn't sign it for lack of time. She wanted to, but she hadn't got the quilt more than half done. It took the biggest heft of two years to do it. And so less important things had to be put aside.
There is a hull row of little stores, and there is swings, and public diversions of different kinds, krokay grounds, etc., etc., etc. Wall, Ardelia stopped at one of these stores kep' by a Injun, not a West, but a East one, and began to price some wooden bracelets, and try 'em on, and Josiah and me wandered on.
It will bring Thomas Jefferson over 900 dollars in money besides fame, a hull lot of fame. Wall, we sot sail for home in good spirits, and the noon train. And we reached Jonesville with no particular eppisodin' till we got to the Jonesville Depot. I rather think Ardelia Tutt wrote a poem on the cars goin' home, though I can't say for certain.
"A hen," sez Miss Tutt bitterly. "To confound my Ardelia with a hen! And I don't think there wuz ever a more ironieler `hen' than that wuz, or a scornfuller one." "Why," sez I reasonably. "Hens are necessary and useful in any position, both walkin' and settin', and layin'. You can't get'em in any position hardly, but what they are useful and respectable, only jest flyin'. Hens can't fly.
And the chambermaid said she had been in and waited for us quite a spell the young man a waitin' below on the piazza, so I s'posed. I expect Ardelia wanted to show him off to us and I myself wuz quite anxus to see him, feelin' worried and oncomfertable about Abram Gee and wantin' to see if this young chap wuz anywhere nigh as good as Abram.
Such is some of the joys of pardners with which the world don't meddle with, nor can't destroy. But to resoom. Ardelia sot down awhile in our room before she went back to her boardin' house. I see she wuz a writin' for she had a long lead pencil in her right hand and occasionally she would lean her forrerd down upon it, in deep thought, and before she went, she slipped the verses into my hand.
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