You've given me my show, I'm goin' to take it, but if you want to know what's in my heart about you, gimme any kind of a chanct to prove, an' see if I don't pony right up to it!" Mother laughed until the tears rolled, she couldn't help it.

She took Mrs.Freshett in her arms and hugged her tight, and kissed her mighty near like she does Sarah Hood.

Mrs.Freshett threw her arms around mother, and looked over her shoulder, and said to me, "Sis, when you grow up, always take a chanct on welcomin' the stranger, like your maw does, an' heaven's bound to be your home! My, but your maw is a woman to be proud of!" she said, hugging mother and patting her on the back.
"All of us are proud of her!" I boasted.
"I doubt if you are proud enough!" cried Mrs.Freshett.

"I have my doubts! I don't see how people livin' with her, an' seein' her every day, are in a shape to know jest what she can do for a person in the place I was in.

I have my doubts!" That night when I went home from school mother was worrying over the blue goose.