Well, Josiah went that day with Billy Huff, he santered off without any system or plan, and wouldn't take my pad though I offered it to him.

But I guess they jest poked round miscelaneous, as you may say, seein' jest what they happened to run into.

And in some of their travels they met Barzelia Trimble, a woman lecturer, she's young and good lookin' and smart as a whip, and I guess she made much of Josiah, 'tennyrate she gin him tickets to her lecture.
She said she'd met a man whose brother-in-law's cousin had bought a dog once of a neighbor of mine, and so feelin' so well acquainted with me she sent me the tickets, and did hope we would come.

She said she felt that she knew us both so well that it would be a treat to her.
The way she come to see Josiah that day, Billy had met her at school where she lectured.
Josiah wuz very anxious that we should both go.

He remembered the dog.
But I sez, "I thought you didn't believe in wimmen's lecturin' and havin' rights, Josiah." "Well, I don't believe in 'em, but the tickets wuz gin to us, fifty cents right out of her pocket, and she'll expect us.