CHAPTER ELEVEN

In Which We Return Home, and I Perswaide Josiah to Build a Cottage for Tirzah Ann


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CHAPTER ELEVEN

IN WHICH WE RETURN HOME, AND I PERSWAIDE JOSIAH TO BUILD A COTTAGE FOR TIRZAH ANN

The next afternoon Faith started on her visit to her aunt beyend Kingston. And immegiately after her departure, Josiah said he’d got to go home right away. Sez he, “It hain’t right to leave Ury to bear all the brunt of the work alone.”

Sez I, “Ury has got over the hardest of the work, and writ so.”

“Well,” sez he, “I’m a deacon and I can’t bear the thought of religious interests languishin’ for my help.”

Sez I, “Seven folks wuz baptized last Sunday: the meetin’ house wuz never so prosperous.”