too, for he got the matter of one hundred thousand of
dollars by her, if he got a cent. As soon as they were
fairly welded, off they sot to take the tour of Europe,
and they larfed and cried, and kissed and quarrelled,
and fit and made up all over the Continent, for her temper
was as onsartain as the climate here--rain one minit
and sun the next; but more rain nor sun.

"He was a fool, was Cranbery. He didn't know how to manage
her. His bridle hand warn't good, I tell you. A spry,
mettlesome hoss, and a dull critter with no action, don't
mate well in harness, that's a fact.

"After goin' every where, and every where else amost,
where should they get to but the Alps. One arternoon, a
sincerely cold one it was too, and the weather, violent
slippy, dark overtook them before they reached the top
of one of the highest and steepest of them mountains,
and they had to spend the night at a poor squatter's
shanty.

"Well, next mornin', jist at day-break, and sun-rise on
them everlastin' hills is tall sun-rise, and no mistake,
p'rhaps nothin was ever seen so fine except the first
one, since creation. It takes the rag off quite. Well,
she was an enterprisin' little toad, was Miss Lot too,
afeered of nothin' a'most; so nothin' would sarve her
but she must out and have a scramb up to the tip-topest
part of the peak afore breakfast.