No woman no matter how strong she wuz could git more than two meals a day under the circumstances." Josiah looked worried and sez, "Well, mebby there has been too much said about it, mebby it would be jest as well to leave pedestals to statters." And I sez, "It is as well agin.

Wimmen couldn't stand it with all they have to do." And so we ended by bein' real congenial in our two minds and thinkin' considerable alike, which is indeed a comfort to pardners.

And we read our chapter in the Bible and had family prayers jest as we do to home.
For I would not leave off all the good old habits of my life because my body wuz moved round a little.

And we had a good night's rest and sot out in good season the next mornin' for the Exposition.
The next mornin' grandpa Huff said to the breakfast table that he did wish he had someone to read to him that day, everybody wuz goin' to the Fair and he wuz goin' to be left alone.

So Blandina, clever creeter that she is, said she would stay and read to him from his favorite volume, Foxe's Book of Martyr's, and also from Lamentations and Job.