I am Josiah Allen's wife." He grasped my hand almost warmly and sez, "Indeed my memory retroacts readily on that delightsome remembrance." And then I introduced Blandina, knowin' I wuz makin' her perfectly happy by so doin'.

He'd growed old considerable, which I didn't blame him for and didn't see as he could help it, twenty years havin' gone by.

His hair, which wuz still long and hung down over his turn-down collar, wuz streaked with gray.

But he still had the same kind of a curious, sentimental, high-flown look to him.
I didn't admire his looks, but Blandina's manners to him wuz worshipful, and it seemed to agree with him first rate, he seemed really to take to her.

And as he asked to accompany and go with us to the next exhibit, I fell in with it, and when my pardner come walked ahead with him while Professor Todd follered with a perfectly blissful Blandina, and before they parted he arranged a rondevoo next day with Blandina.
I wuz beat out when I got home and Miss Huff sent Aunt Pheeny up to my room with a glass of hot lemonade and some crackers, supper not bein' quite ready owin' to shiftless works in the kitchen.