His calm gray eyes would light up with the pure light of deathless love when they rested on the sweet face of little Rosy.

And he wuz always tryin' to help her in some way, lookin' out for her interest, he seemed to love to protect and wait on her in a way that argued well for the future, but mebby it wuz this constant and almost slavish devotion that made her slight him, she had got so used to his stiddy love that she didn't appreciate it as she'd ort to.
He had paid attention to Rosy for most three years.

I thought mebby he wuz such a manly chap he didn't want to hurry her, she wuz so young, but everybody spozed they wuz as good as engaged when Jabez Wind come to Jonesville to live with his uncle, old Kellup Wind.

He lost his wife, and Miss Wind, his brother's widder, come to keep house for him and brung Jabez with her.

I hurn it wuz the bargain she wuz to have two dollars a week and Jabez'es board.