under the fun, as eyes must be in this world of ourn if they look back fur,
or ahead much of any. A queer world this is, and kinder sad and mysterious,
behind all the good and glory on't.

He wuz jest out of Harvard school and as full of life and sperits as a
colt let loose in a clover field. He went out in the hay field, he and
Polly, and rode home on top of a load of hay jest as nateral and easy and
bare-headed as if he wuz workin' for wages, and he the only son of a
millionaire--we all took to him.

Well, when the news got out that I wuz goin' to visit Washington, D.C., all
the neighbors wanted to send errents by me. Betsy Bobbet Slimpsey wanted a
dozen Patent Office books for scrap books for her poetry.

Uncle Nate Gowdey wanted me to go to the Agricultural Buro and git him a
paper of lettuce seed. And Solomon Sypher wanted me to git him a new kind
of string beans and some cowcumber seeds.

Uncle Jarvis Bentley, who wuz goin' to paint his house, wanted me to ask
the President what kind of paint he used on the White House. He thought it
ort to be a extra kind to stand the sharp glare that wuz beatin' down on it
constant, and to ask him if he didn't think the paint would last longer and
the glare be mollified some if they used pure white and clear ile in it,
and left off whitewash and karseen.

Ardelia Rumsey, who is goin' to be married, wanted me, if I see any new
kinds of bedquilt patterns at the White House or the Senator's housen, to
git patterns for 'em. She said she wuz sick of sun flowers and blazin'
stars. She thought mebby they'd have sunthin' new, spread eagle style. She
said her feller wuz goin' to be connected with the Govermunt and she