place any of us thought of lookin'. And she never said another
word about poetry, or any other trouble, nor I nuther.




V.

WE ARRIVE AT SARATOGA.


We arrived at Saratoga jest as sunset with a middlin' gorgeous
dress on wuz a walkin' down the west and a biddin' us and the
earth good-bye. There wuz every color you could think on almost,
in her gown and some stars a shinin' through the floatin' drapery
and a half moon restin' up on her cloudy foretop like a beautiful
orniment.

(I s'pose mebby it is proper to describe sunset in this way on
goin' to such a dressy place, though it haint my style to do so, I
don't love to describe sunset as a female and don't, much of the
time, but I love to see things correspond.)

Wall, we descended from the cars and went to the boardin' place
provided for us beforehand by the look out of friends. It wuz a
good place, there haint no doubt of that, good folks; good fare
and clean.

Ardelia parted away from us at the depo. She wuz a goin' to board
to a smaller boardin' house kep' by a second cousin of her