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Blakes, how much fun do you suppose we'd have out of it? Not much. I'd jest ez lief 'twasn't Christmus an' so would he though they do say his first wife give him a bolt o' domestic once-t for Christmus, an' made it up into night-shirts an' things for him du'in' the year. Think of it.
Here we come, Jinny an' me six miles in the slush up to the hub, an' Jinny with a unweaned colt at home. Whoa-a-a, there! "It's good Christmas don't come but once-t a year ain't it, Jinny? "Well, Rowton, you're what I call a pro-gressive business man, that's what you are.
An' ef she had o' once-t mentioned me to the Lord confidential ez a person fitten to commingle with the cherubim an' seraphim, 'stid of a pore lost sinner not fitten to bresh up their wing-feathers for 'em, I b'lieve I might o' give in. I don't wonder I 'ain't never had a call to enter the Kingdom on her ricommendation.
Who is she, you say? Why, don't you know? She's Joe Wallace's little Mary Elizabeth a nice, well-mannered child ez ever lived. Wife has had her over here to supper sev'al nights lately, an' Sonny he's took tea over to the Wallaces' once-t or twice-t, an' they say he shows mighty good table manners, passin' things polite, an' leavin' proper amounts on his plate.
But little Mary Elizabeth, why, she ain't none too angelic to git a good healthy spell o' the pouts once-t in a while, but ef she's handled kind an' tender, why, she'll come thoo without havin' to humble herself with apologies.
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