"I ain't felt so wicked in years." I was so sick that Aunt Deel put me to bed and said that she would feed the pigs and the chickens.

Sick as he was, Uncle Peabody had to milk the cows.

How relentless were the cows! I soon discovered that the Dunkelbergs had fallen from their high estate in our home and that Silas Wright, Jr., had taken their place in the conversation of Aunt Deel..