class="indent15">Jieuked her head and waved her hand.

"Hey!" says I, as she bounced in

The spring-wagon, reachin' back

To give me a lift, "whoop-ee! "

I-says-ee, "you're home agin—

Home agin with me!"

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Lord! how wild she wuz and glad,

Gittin' home!—and things she had

To inquire about, and talk—

Plowin', plantin', and the stock—

News o' neighberhood; and how

Wuz the Deem-girls doin' now,

Sence that-air young chicken-hawk

They was "tamin'" soared away

With their settin'-hen, one day?—

(Said she'd got Marne's postal-card

'Bout it, very day 'at she

Started home from Bethany.)

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How wuz pro-duce—eggs, and lard?—

Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard

Times," as usual? And, says she,

Troubled-like, "How's Deedie—say?

Sence pore child e-loped away

And got back, and goin' to 'ply

Fer school-license by and by—

And where's 'Lijy workin' at?

And how's 'Aunt' and 'Uncle Jake'?

How wuz 'Old Maje'—and the cat?

And wuz Marthy's baby fat

As his 'Humpty-Dumpty' ma!—

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Sweetest thing she ever saw!—

Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too,

Soon as she turned in and got

Supper fer us—smokin'-hot—

And the 'dishes' all wuz through.—"

Sich a supper! W'y, I set

There and et, and et, and et!—

Jes et on, tel