that I hain't tried to cut style--that I didn't try to git you a stylish
meal."

I wouldn't say a word further to him, and I never spoke to him once that
night--not once, only in the night I thought there wuz a mouse in the
room, and I forgot myself and called on him for help.

And for three days I didn't pass nothin' but the compliments with him;
he felt bad--he worships me. He did it all to keep me from goin' to a
costly place--I know what his motives wuz--but he had mortified me too
deep.




CHAPTER XV.


Wall, this mornin' I said that I would go to see the Palace of Art if I
had to go on my hands and knees.

And Josiah sez, "I guess you'd need a new pair of knees by the time you
got there."

And I do spoze it wuz milds and milds from where I wuz.

But I only wanted to let Josiah Allen know my cast-iron determination to
not be put off another minute in payin' my devours to Art.

He see it writ in my mean and didn't make no moves towards breakin' it