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Wall, Ezra and Druzilla wanted to go to the Sulphur Springs way beyend Saratoga Lake, and as the Deacon wuz agreeable, and I also, we sot out for it, though, as we all said, it wuz goin' to be a pretty long and tegus journey for a hot day.
But what more words might have passed between us, wuz cut short by the arrival of Ezra and Druzilla in a good big carriage, with Miss Balch on the back seat, and Ezra acrost from her, and a man up in front a drivin'. It wuz a good lookin' sight, and I hastened down the steps, Josiah disappearin' inside jest as quick as he ketched sight of their heads.
And he that sot out that afternoon a feelin' so haughty, and lookin' down on Ezra and Druzilla, and bein' brung back by 'em, in that condition and bein' goured all the time by thoughts of the ignominious way his flirtin' had ended, by her droppin' him by the side of the road, like a weed she had trampled on too hardly.
When we got into the buggy to start, the Deacon says, "I would like to resoom the conversation with you, Josiah Allen's wife, a goin' back." And Druzilla spoke right out and says, "I will set on the front seat by Ezra." I says, "Oh no, Druzilla, I can hear the Deacon from where I sot before."
Says I firmly, "You look out, or some of them 10 will be the death of you, and you may see the day that you will be glad to leave 'em, the hull 10 of em, and go back to Druzilla and Ezra Balch."
But the Deacon says, Talkin' loud towards night always offected his voice onpleasantly, mebby Druzilla and he had better change seats. Again I demurred. And then Druzilla said she must set by Ezra, she wanted to tell him sumthin' in confidence. And so it wuz arraigned, for I felt that I wuz not the one to come between pardners, no indeed.
But at the last minute, Josiah Allen said "he couldn't go." I says "Why can't you go?" "Oh," he says, kinder drawin' up his collar, and smoothin' down his vest, "Oh, I have got another engagement." He looked real high-headed, and I says to him: "Josiah Allen didn't you promise Druzilla Balch that you would go with her and Ezra to-day?" "Wall yes," says he, "but I can't." "Why not?" says I.
Says Ezra, good man he see right through it all in a minute, and so did Druzilla and the Deacon says Ezra, "Get up on the seat with the driver, Josiah Allen, and drive back with us." Then I leaned over the side of the buggy, and says I, "Josiah Allen, do you get in and ride, it will kill you to walk back; put on your boots if you can, and ride, seein' Ezra is so perlite as to ask you."
And though Druzilla and Ezra was agreeable and the Deacon edifyin', I didn't seem to feel edified, and the most warm-hearted looks didn't seem to warm my heart none, it wuz oppressed with gloomy forebodings of, Where wuz my pardner? They had laid out to set out together. Had they sot?
It wuz real good in Druzilla, and Ezra, and also in the Deacon. It kinder ondeared the hull on 'em to me. I hope this won't be told of, it orto be kep for he wuz a goodnatured lookin' hired man, black, but not to blame for that and good land! what is a straw? anyway they wuz clean.
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