"Yes, sir, you certainly would 'a' laughed! Why, that ole man thinks YOU got something to do with it.

You'll have to blame it on him, young lady, if it makes you feel like startin' out to whip somebody! He's actually got THIS theory: he says Bibbs got to gettin' better while he worked over there at the shop because you kept him cheered up and feelin' good.

And he says if you could manage to just stand him hangin' around a little--maybe not much, but just SOMEtimes--again, he believed it'd do Bibbs a mighty lot o' good.
'Course, that's only what the doctor said.

Me, I don't know anything about that; but I can say this much--I never saw any such a MENTAL improvement in anybody in my life as I have lately in Bibbs.

I expect you'd find him a good deal more entertaining than what he used to be--and I know it's a kind of embarrassing thing to suggest after the way he piled in over here that day to ask you to stand up before the preacher with him, but accordin' to ole Doc GURNEY, he's got you on his brain so bad--" Mary jumped.