would they have thought nowadays to see folks make nothin' of
settin' off for China, or Japan or Jerusalem before breakfast.

And what did they know of the hardships of civilization? Now to
sposen the case, sposen Miss Abraham had to live in New York
winters, and go to two or three big receptions every day, and to
dinner parties, and theatre parties, and operas and such like,
evenin's, and receive and return about three thousand calls, and
be on more 'n a dozen charitable boards (hard boards they be too,
some on 'em) and lots of other projects and enterprizes -- be on
the go the hull winter, with a dress so tight she couldn't breathe
instead of her good loose robes, and instead of her good
comfortable sandals have her feet upon high-heeled shoes pinchin'
her corns almost unto distraction. And then to Washington to go
all through it agin, and more too, and Florida, and Cuba; and then
to the sea-shore and have it all over agin with sea bathin' added.

And then to the mountains, and all over agin with climbin' round
added. Then to Europe, with seas sickness, picture galleries,
etc., added. And so on home agin in the fall to begin it all over
agin.

Why Miss Abraham would be so tuckered out before she went half
through with one season, that she would be a dead 4 mother.

And Mr. Abraham -- why one half hour down at the stock exchange
would have been too much for that good old creeter. The yells and
cries, and distracted movements of the crowd of Luker Gatherers
there, would have skairt him to death. He never would have lived
to follow Miss Abraham round from pillow to post through summer