a low buildin' settled right down onto this old earth, with a
immense piazza stretchin' along the side on't.

And Miss Flamm and Josiah and me disembarked from the carriage
right onto the end of it. But the dog and her relatives stayed
back in the buggy and Josiah spoke bitterly to me ag'in but low,
"They think it would hurt 'em to associate with me a little, dumb
'm; but I am jest as good as they be any day of the week, if I
haint dressed up so fancy."

"That's so," sez I, whisperin' back to him, "and don't let it
worry you a mite. Don't try to act like Haman," sez I. "You are
havin' lots of the good things of this world, and are goin' to
have some fried potatoes. Don't let them two Mordecais at the
gate, poison all your happiness, or you may get come up with jest
as Haman wuz."

"I'd love to hang'em," sez he, "as high as Haman's gallows would
let 'em hang."

"Why," sez I, "they haint injured you in any way. They seem to
eat like perfect gentlemen. A little too exclusive and
aristocratic, mebby, but they haint done nothin' to you."

"No," sez he, "that is the stick on it, here we be, three men
with a lot of wimmen. And they can't associate with me as man
with man, but set off by themselves too dumb proud to say a word
to me, that is the dumb of it."

But at this very minute, before I could rebuke him for his