I felt turrible.

What wuz I to do to do right?
How wuz I to handle this enormous prescription, St.Louis Exposition, and give it in proper doses to the beloved patient?
I knowed the size of the mind I had to deal with, I knowed the size of the medicine I wuz told to deal out to that mind.
Could it stand the strain?
Could that small citadel stand a assault of such magnitude without crumplin' and crumblin' right down?
Dast I venter?
And then agin dast I disobey the imperative advice of Doctor Bombus?
So I wuz tossted to and fro like the waves of the sea.
But one thing I wuz determined on, I wouldn't start alone with him in the state he wuz in, for if he should lose his mind in that immense place how could I find it with no one to help me?
It would be worse than lookin' for a cambric needle in a hay-mow.
I knew how the shafts of calumny and envy might be aimed at me by his relations, so I would take along one on his side to share my responsibility, so if he did lose his mind and couldn't find it agin, they couldn't find fault with me and say I hadn't done my best.

So I proposed that his niece, Blandina Teeter, should go with us, she is well off and a willin' creeter.
[Illustration] Josiah didn't seem to care either way, but languidly remarked that if he did go he wanted a sky blue neck-tie.

That wuz the first sign of interest he had took in anything, and I hailed it as a good omen but got the tie as dark a blue as I dast.
Blandina Teeter, formerly Allen, is a widder with a tall spindlin' figger pale complected, with big light blue eyes that ruther stand out of her head, and a tall peaked forehead with light hair combed down smooth on both sides with scalops made in it by hand.

She is good natered to a fault, you know you can kill yourself on milk porridge, and though folks don't philosophize on it you can be too good to be comfortable.
She is a natural lover of mankind, nothin' light in it, jest a deep meetin' house love.