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The wagon-maker hung by one careless leg to his horse before cantering off, and inquired with neighborly interest: "How far West you folks goin'?" "We're goin' to Illinois," replied Grandma Padgett. "Oh, pshaw, now!" said the wagon-maker. "Goin' to the Eeleenoy! that's a good ways. Ain't you 'fraid you'll never git back?" "We ain't expectin' to come back," said Grandma Padgett.
"And the milk-sick, they say the milk-sick is all over the Eeleenoy." "We're not borrowing any trouble about such things," said Grandma Padgett. "Some of our townsfolks went out there," continued the wagon-maker, "but what was left of 'em come back. They had to buy their drinkin' water, and the winters on them perrares froze the children in their beds!
Oh, I wouldn't go to the Eeleenoy," said the wagon-maker coaxingly. "You're better off here, if you only knew it." As Grandma Padgett heard this remonstrance with silent dignity, the wagon-maker took himself off with a few additional remarks. Then they began to make themselves snug for the night. The wagon-cover was taken off and made into a tent for Grandma Padgett and aunt Corinne.
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