'All right; hurry up, now,' "I dusted around putty lively, an' inside of an hour was back with the nurse, an 'jest after we got inside the door--" David paused thoughtfully for a moment and then, lowering his tone a little, "jest as we got inside the front door, a door upstairs opened an' I heard a little 'Waa! waa!' like it was the leetlist kind of a new lamb--an' I tell you," said David, with a little quaver in his voice, and looking straight over the off horse's ears, "nothin' 't I ever heard before nor since ever fetched me, right where I _lived_, as that did.

The nurse, she made a dive fer the stairs, wavin' me back with her hand, an' I--wa'al--I went into the settin' room, an--wa'al--ne' mind.
"I dunno how long I set there list'nin' to 'em movin' 'round overhead, an' wonderin' what was goin' on; but fin'ly I heard a step on the stair an' I went out into the entry, an' it was Mis' Jones.

'How be they ?' I says.
"'We don't quite know yet,' she says.

'The little boy is a nice formed little feller,' she says, 'an' them childern very often grow up, but he is _very little_,' she says.
"'An' how 'bout my wife ?' I says.
"'Wa'al,' she says, 'we don't know jest yet, but she is quiet now, an' we'll hope fer the best.

If you want me,' she says, 'I'll come any time, night or day, but I must go now.