"Did they help her?
Has anything happened ?" "HAPPENED!" began Asaph, but Captain Cy silenced him by a wink.
"Yes," answered the captain; "something's happened.

Why ?" "Hurrah! I thought 'twould.

She can hear better, can't she ?" "Yes, I guess it's safe to say she can." "Good! You can thank me for it.

When I see how dreadful deef she was I wrote my cousin Eddie T, who's an optician up to Boston--you know him, Ase--and I says: 'Ed, you know what's good for folks who can't see?
Ain't there nothin',' says I, 'that'll help them who can't hear?
How about ear trumpets ?' And Ed wrote that an ear trumpet would probably help some, but why didn't I try a pair of them patent fixin's that are made to put inside deef people's ears?
He'd known of cases where they helped a lot.

So I sent for a pair, and the biggest ear trumpet made, besides.