buggy for the occasion. He called it "goin' in his own conveniance,"
and I didn't say nothin' aginst his callin' it so. I didn't break
it up for this reasun, thinkses I it is a conveniance for us to
ride in it, for us 2 tried and true souls to get off for a minute
by ourselves.

Wall, Josiah wuz dretful good behaved this afternoon. He helped
me in a good deal politer than usual and tucked the bright
lap-robe almost tenderly round my form.

Men do have sech spells. They are dretful good actin' at times.
Why they act better and more subdueder and mellerer at sometimes
than at others, is a deep subject which we mortals cannot as yet
fully understand. Also visey versey, their cross, up headeder
times, over bearin' and actin'. It is a deep subject and one
freighted with a great deal of freight.

But Josiah's goodness on this afternoon almost reached the
Scripteral and he sez, when we first sot out, and I see that the
horse's head wuz turned towards the Lake. Sez he, "I guess we'll
go to the Lake, but where do you want to go, Samantha? I will go
anywhere you want to go."

And he still drove almost recklessly on lakewards. And sez he,
"We had better go straight on, but say the word, and you can go
jest where you want to." And he urged the horse on to still
greater speed. And he sez agin, "Do you want to go any
particular place, Samantha?"

"Yes," sez I, "I had jest as leves go there as not."