other place. Difference in folks I s'pose. But they say there
is sights and sights of husbands and wives jest like Miss Flamm.
Can't find a mite of health anywhere near where their families
is, and have to poke off alone after it. It makes it real bad
for 'em.

But anyway she came to Jonesville for her health. And she hearn
of Thomas Jefferson and employed him. It wuz money that fell
onto her from her father, or that should have fell, that she wuz
a tryin' to git it to fall. And he won the case. It fell. She
wuz rich as a Jew before she got this money, but she acted as
tickled over it as if she wuzn't worth a cent. (Human nater.)
She paid Thomas J. well and she and Maggie and he got to be quite
good friends.

She is a well-meanin', fat little creeter, what there is of her.
I have seen folks smaller than she is, and then ag'in we seen
them that wuzn't so small. She is middlin' good lookin', not old
by any means, but there is a deep wrinkle plowed right into her
forward, and down each side of her mouth. They are plowed deep.
And I have always wondered to myself who held the plow.

It wuz'nt age, for she haint old enough. Wuz it Worry? That
will do as good a day's work a plowin' as any creeter I ever see,
and work as stiddy after it gits to doin' day's works in a
female's face.

Waz it Dissatisfaction and Disappointment? They, too, will plow
deep furrows and a sight of 'em. I don't know what it wuz.
Mebby it wuz her waist and sleeves. Her sleeves wuz so tight