To inquire about, and talk — Plowin', plantin', and the stock — News o' neighberhood; and how Wuz the Deem-girls doin' now, Sence that-air young chicken-hawk They was "tamin'" soared away With their settin'-hen, one day? — (Said she'd got Marne's postal-card 'Bout it, very day 'at she Started home from Bethany.)
How wuz pro-duce – eggs, and lard? — Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard Times," as usual? And, says she, Troubled-like, "How's Deedie – say? Sence pore child e-loped away And got back, and goin' to 'ply Fer school-license by and by — And where's 'Lijy workin' at? And how's 'Aunt' and 'Uncle Jake'? How wuz 'Old Maje' – and the cat? And wuz Marthy's baby fat As his 'Humpty-Dumpty' ma! —
Sweetest thing she ever saw! — Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too, Soon as she turned in and got Supper fer us – smokin'-hot — And the 'dishes' all wuz through. – " Sich a supper! W'y, I set There and et, and et, and et! — Jes et on, tel Jonas he Pushed his chair back, laughed, and says, "I could walk his log!"
And we All laughed then, tel 'Viry she Lit the lamp – and I give in! — Riz and kissed her: "Heaven bless You!" says I – "you're home ag'in — Same old dimple in your chin, Same white apern," I-says-ee, "Same sweet girl, and good to see As your mother ust to be, — And I' got you home ag'in —
