Rosy's and Royal's happiness wuz enough in itself to pay me abundantly for my tribulations.

And then my settin' room new plastered and Josiah would never consented to tear it off, and it wuz lumpy and streaked and broken, and here it wuz new plastered over smooth as glass.
Oh! thinkses I how thankful I ort to be and how I ort to forgit the troubles of the night in the joys of the mornin'.
And crownin' blessin' of all Josiah had seemin'ly forgot all about the Exposition of Josiah Allen.

He hadn't mentioned it for days and the children and I wuz full of hope, it wuz broke up.

But, alas! in this world how little you can tell what is broke and what hain't.
And the news Josiah brung home, what comfort there wuz in the thought--I like Karen and felt to rejoice with her.

It seemed that Luman Heath, not havin' heard of our afflictions, had let Jabez go on with his work the very next day after he finished here.