them glasses too. But you may as well believe it for I tell the
truth at all times, and if I wuz a goin' to lie, I wouldn't lie
about lemons. And then I've always noticed it, that if things
git to happenin' to you, lots of things jest like it will happen.
That made twice in one week or so, that I had found straws in my
tumbler. But then I have had company three days a runnin', rainy
days too sometimes. It haint nothin' to wonder at too much. Any
way it is the truth.

Wall, we drinked our lemonade, I a quietly takin' out the straws
and droppin' 'em on the floor at my side in a quiet ladylike
manner, and Josiah, a bein' wunk at by me, doin' the same thing.

And anon, our carriage drove up to the end of the piazza agin and
we sot sail homewards. And the dog barked at Josiah almost every
step of the way back, and when we got to our boardin' place, Miss
Flamm shook hands with us both, and her relatives never took a
mite of notice of us, further than to jump down and open the
carriage door for us as we got out. (They are genteel in their
manners, and Josiah had to admit that they wuz, much as his
feelin's wuz hurt by their haughtiness towards him.)

And then the dog, and Miss Flamm and Miss Flamm's relatives drove
off.




XI.