Jos. Wall; I will say darn Betsey Bobbett; there now, darn her; oh! my back; (slowly sitting down) I can’t sit down, nor stand down.
Sam. You went under the table quick enough when they come in.
Jos. Throw that in my face, will you? What could I do? My clothes all fallin’ of me.
Sam. Wall, Josiah, less be thankful that we are as well off as we be. Betsey might have insisted on surprisin’ us. Do you s’pose they will be mad?
Jos. I don’t know, nor care, but I hope they will.
CURTAIN FALLS.
ACT II.
Scene.—Widder Doodle and Tirzah Ann sitting at work tufting a bed spread.—Samantha comes in out of the garden.
Sam. I declare them hens makes me more trouble than all the rest of my work, keeps me a scarin’ ’em out of the garden all the time, and that pup hain’t good for anything.
Tirz. A. Father says all it wants is a little encouragement.