justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind
and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from
them clear to the ends of the earth. I wanted to see it, I wanted to like a
dog. So we laid out to go.

[Illustration: "I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country.... So we
laid out to go."]

Lorinda lived on the old Allen place, and I always sot store by her, and
her girl, Polly, wuz, as Thomas J. said, a peach. She had spent one of her
college vacations with us, and a sweeter, prettier, brighter girl I don't
want to see. Her name is Pauline, but everybody calls her Polly.

The Cagwins are rich, and Polly had every advantage money could give,
and old Mom Nater gin her a lot of advantages money couldn't buy, beauty
and intellect, a big generous heart and charm. And you know the Cagwins
couldn't bought that at no price. Charm in a girl is like the perfume in a
rose, and can't be bought or sold. And you can't handle or describe either
on 'em exactly. But what a influence they have; how they lay holt of your
heart and fancy.

Royal Gray, the young man who wuz payin' attention to her, stopped once
for a day or two in Jonesville with Polly and her Ma on their way to the
Cagwins' camp in the Adirondacks. And we all liked him so well that we
agreed in givin' him this extraordinary praise, we said he wuz worthy of
Polly, we knowed of course that wuz the highest enconium possible for us to
give.

Good lookin', smart as a whip, and deep, you could see that by lookin' into
his eyes, half laughin' and half serious eyes and kinder sad lookin' too