Sez he, "Two days of St.Louis weather wuz worth more to sinners than the sermons of a month of winter Sundays." Truly in heat it wuz a great object lesson.

I wore my brown lawn dress day after day, havin' no chance to wear my rich alpacky, as I wanted to, to kinder show off before Miss Huff, and Blandina presented the wilted appearance of a long slim cabbage leaf plunged in bilin' water.
I believe Josiah's groanin's and takin's on and mutterin's helped him to bear it better than if he had held in.

Not that I told him so, no, I told him it wuz onmanly to carry on so.

But truly the heat wuz fearful, our clothin' stuck to us and prespiration and sweat run down our faces.
The next day it wuz so hot I felt kinder mauger and stayed to home.
Blandina and Miss Huff went half a day, and in the afternoon Blandina went to a big department store in the city to git some thinner underwear, and I got awful skairt about her.

Miss Huff gin her the most minute directions about where it wuz and what car to take, it wuzn't a great ways off, and she ort to got back at four o'clock anyway.
But time run along, four struck, then five and then six, and I wuz gittin' dretful worried about her when she come in tired enough.
Sez I, "I wuz awful worried about you, Blandina.