before.

But she had this to console her that the law didn't forgit her in her
widowhood. No; the law is quite thoughtful of wimmen by spells. It sez it
protects wimmen. And I spoze that in some mysterious way, too deep for
wimmen to understand, it wuz protectin' her now.

Well, she suffered along and finally married agin. I wondered why she did.
But she wuz such a quiet, home-lovin' woman that it wuz spozed she wanted
to settle down and be kinder still and sot. But of all the bad luck she
had. She married on short acquaintance, and he proved to be a perfect
wanderer. He couldn't keep still, it wuz spozed to be a mark.

He moved Huldah thirteen times in two years, and at last he took her into
a cart, a sort of covered wagon, and traveled right through the western
states with her. He wanted to see the country and loved to live in the
wagon, it wuz his make. And, of course, the law give him control of her
body, and she had to go where he moved it, or else part with him. And
I spoze the law thought it wuz guardin' and nourishin' her when it wuz
joltin' her over them prairies and mountains and abysses. But it jest kep'
her shook up the hull of the time.

It wuz the regular Pester luck.

And then another of her aunts, Drusilly Pester, married a industrious,
hard-workin' man, one that never drinked, wuz sound on the doctrines, and
give good measure to his customers, he wuz a groceryman. And a master hand
for wantin' to foller the laws of his country as tight as laws could be
follered. And so knowin' that the law approved of moderate correction for
wimmen, and that "a man might whip his wife, but not enough to endanger her