thought it would be appropriate.

And I asked her how. And she said he wuz goin' to git a patent on a new
kind of jack knife.

I told her that if she wanted a govermunt quilt and wanted it appropriate
she ort to have a crazy quilt.

And she said she had jest finished a crazy quilt with seven thousand
pieces of silk in it, and each piece trimmed with seven hundred stitches
of feather stitchin'--she'd counted 'em. And then I remembered seein' it.
There wuz a petition fer wimmen's rights and I remember Ardelia couldn't
sign it for lack of time. She wanted to, but she hadn't got the quilt more
than half done. It took the biggest heft of two years to do it. And so less
important things had to be put aside.

And Ardelia's mother wanted to sign it, but she couldn't owin' to a
bed-spread she wuz makin'. She wuz quiltin' in Noah's Ark and all the
animals on a Turkey red quilt. I remember she wuz quiltin' the camel that
day and couldn't be disturbed, so we didn't git the names. It took the old
lady three years, and when it wuz done it wuz a sight to behold, though I
wouldn't want to sleep under so many animals. But folks went from fur and
near to see it, and I enjoyed lookin' at it that day.

Zebulin Coon wanted me to carry a new hen coop of hisen to git patented.
And I thought to myself I wonder if they will ask me to carry a cow.

And sure enough Elnathan Purdy wanted me to dicker for a calf from Mount
Vernon, swop one of his yearlin's for it.