Wall, I wuz clean discouraged and beat out, and so I told Josiah.
But he encouraged me some by sayin':

"Wall, I could have told you jest how it would be," and, "You
would have done better, Samantha, to have been to home a cookin'
for your own famishin' family." And several more jest such
inspirin' remarks as men will give to the females of their
families when they are engaged in charitable enterprises.

But I got a good, a very good dinner, and it made me feel some
better, and then I haint one to give up to discouragements,
anyway.

So I put on a little better dress for after noon, and my best
bonnet and shawl, and set sail again after dinner.

And if I ever had a lesson in not givin' up to discouragements in
the first place I had it then. For whether it wuz on account of
the more dressy look of my bonnet and shawl -- or whether it wuz
that folks felt cleverer in the afternoon -- or whether it wuz
that I had gone to the more discouragin' places in the forenoon,
and the better ones in the afternoon -- or whether it wuz that I
tackled on the subject in a better way than I had tackled 'em --
whether it wuz for any of these reasons, or all of 'em or somethin'
-- anyway my luck turned at noon, 12 M., and all that afternoon
I had one triumph after another -- place after place did I collect
pound or pounds as the case may be (or collected the promises of
'em, I mean). I did splendid, and wuz prospered perfectly amazing
-- and I went home feelin' as happy and proud as a king or a zar.