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I thought mebby he wuz such a manly chap he didn't want to hurry her, she wuz so young, but everybody spozed they wuz as good as engaged when Jabez Wind come to Jonesville to live with his uncle, old Kellup Wind. He lost his wife, and Miss Wind, his brother's widder, come to keep house for him and brung Jabez with her.
The village doctor, after his precarious drive in the ancient sulky, had a night of toil. Caleb commonly called Kellup Bates, and his son Thomas, were the principal sufferers, they being notorious eaters and the terrors of sewing-circle suppers.
After that, Miss Blin only said that she would speak to Kellup; meaning her brother, Caleb Bree.
So Kellup went back into New Hampshire. There was a little money laid up since Miss Bree and Bel had been together; Bel could get along, she thought, till work began again. But it was no longer living; it would not be living then; it would be only work and solitude. She was like a great many others of them now; girls without tie or belonging, holding on where they could.
But before I could reply Ury come runnin' down stairs holdin' Philury, faithful critter that he wuz, and Josiah yelled at him: "Do you go over to Kellup Wind's and bring that cussed fool over here, and if he don't take out that invention of his under ten minutes I will have the law on him, and whip him within an inch of his life!"
"I give all I leave in the world to my niece Belinda Bree." "Kellup" came down and buried his sister, and "looked into things;" concluded that "Bel was pretty comfortable, and with good folks, Mrs. Pimminy and Miss Smalley; 'sposed she calc'lated to keep on, now; she could come back if she wanted to, though." Bel did not want to. She would stay here a little while, at any rate, and think.
He hired out for a year the very next day after the eppisode, to work for twenty dollars a month on a farm, house rent, wood, and cow furnished. Kellup Wind is goin' to live with a daughter, and Karen is blissful at thought of keepin' house for Jabez. Good creeter! I hope she will have a little rest now. I said I meant to go and see her jest as soon as she wuz settled.
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