from that chamber, he wuz a changed man in his demeanor and
liniment, such is the power of love and womanly devotion.

He never looked at a woman durin' our hull stay at Saratoga, save
with the eye of a philosopher and a Methodist.



X.

MISS G. WASHINGTON FLAMM.

Miss G. Washington Flamm is a very fashionable woman. Thomas
Jefferson carried her through a law-suit, and carried her stiddy
and safe. (She wuz in the right on't, there haint no doubt of
that.)

She had come to Jonesville for the summer to board, her husband
bein' to home at the time in New York village, down on Wall
street. He had to stay there, so she said. I don't know why,
but s'pose sunthin' wuz the matter with the wall; anyway he
couldn't leave it. And she went round to different places a good
deal for her health. There didn't seem to be much health round
where her husband wuz, so she had to go away after it, go a
huntin' for it, way over to Europe and back ag'in; and away off
to California, and Colorado, and Long Branch, and Newport, and
Saratoga, and into the Country. It made it real bad for Miss
Flamm.

Now I always found it healthier where Josiah wuz than in any