I knew I didn't; but I had to rest under the unkind insinnuation.
Such is some of the trials of pardners.

But Josiah waked up real clever. And I brung him up some delicate
warm toast and some fragrant tea, and his smile on me wuz dretful
good-natured, almost warm. And I forgot all his former petulence
and basked in the rays of love and happiness that beamed on me out
of the blue sky of my companion's eyes. The clear blue sky that
held two stars, to which my heart turned.

Such is some of the joys of pardners with which the world don't
meddle with, nor can't destroy.

But to resoom. Ardelia sot down awhile in our room before she
went back to her boardin' house. I see she wuz a writin' for she
had a long lead pencil in her right hand and occasionally she
would lean her forrerd down upon it, in deep thought, and before
she went, she slipped the verses into my hand.

Sez I, a lookin' over my specks at Ardelia after I had finished
readin' the verses: "What does 'ron' mean? I never heerd of that
word before, nor knew there wuz sech a one."

Sez she, "I meant ran, but I s'pose it is a poetical license to
say 'ron,' don't you think so?"

"Oh, yes," sez I, "I s'pose so, I don't know much about licenses,
nor don't want to, they are suthin' I never believed in. But,"
sez I, for I see she looked red and overcasted by my remarks, "I
don't s'pose it will make any difference in a 100 years whether