How much she won't know--nor can't know, I hope; 'cause if she did, she'd know other things--that I don't want her to know.
"But it's just this.

It's been hard times with us this year, in more ways than one.

We've been blue and discouraged--my man and me, and ready for--'most anything.

We was reckoning on getting a divorce about now, and letting the kids well, we didn't know what we would do with the kids, Then came the accident, and what we heard about the little girl's never walking again.

And we got to thinking how she used to come and sit on our doorstep and train with the kids, and laugh, and--and just be glad.