anxious to pacify me that she got it a leetle shorter in the back
than it wuz in the front. And (for the same reason) it fairly
clicked me in the neck it wuz so high, and the sleeves wuz that
long that I told Josiah Allen (in confidence) I was tempted to
knit some loops across the bottom of 'em and wear 'em for mits.

But I didn't, and I didn't change the dress neither. Thinkses I,
mebby it will have a good moral effect on them other old wimmen
there. Thinkses I, when they see another woman melted and
shortened and choked fur principle's sake, mebby they will pause
in their wild careers.

Wall, this wuz in November, and I wuz to have the dress, if it wuz
a possible thing, by the middle of April, so's to get it home in
time to sew some lace in the neck. And so havin' everything
settled about goin' I wuz calm in my frame most all the time, and
so wuz my pardner.

And right here, let me insert this one word of wisdom for the
special comfort of my sect and yet it is one that may well be laid
to heart by the more opposite one. If your pardner gets restless
and oneasy and middlin' cross, as pardners will be anon, or even
oftener -- start them off on a tower. A tower will in 9 cases out
of 10 lift 'em out of their oneasiness, their restlessness and
their crossness.

Why this is so I cannot tell, no more than I can explain other
mysteries of creation, but I know it is so. I know they will come
home more placider, more serener, and more settled-downer. Why I
have known a short tower to Slab City or Loontown act like a charm