He said he guessed we’d better go that way. And I sez, “No, Josiah, I want to go round by the other road.”
Wall, we got back to our abode perfectly tuckered out, but perfectly happy. And we concluded that after dinner we would set out and see the different springs and partake of ’em. Had it not been for our almost frenzied haste to get away from parasols and dogs and destraction into a place of rest we should have beheld them sooner. And our afternoon’s adventures I will relate in another epistol.
Chapter VII.
SEEING THE DIFFERENT SPRINGS.
Immegeatly after dinner (a good one) Josiah Allen, Ardelia Tutt and me sot out to view and look at the different springs and to partake of the same. We hadn’t drinked a drop of it as yet. Ardelia had come over to go with us. She had on a kind of a yellowish drab dress and a hat made of the same, with some drab and blue bows of ribbon and some pink holly-hawks in it, and she had some mits on (her hands prespired dretfully, and she sweat easy). As I have said, she is a good lookin’ girl but soft. And most any dress she puts on kinder falls into the same looks. It may be quite a hard lookin’ dress before she puts it on, but before she has wore it half a hour it will kinder crease down into the softest lookin, thing you ever see. And so with her bonnets, and mantillys, and everything.
The down onto a goslin’s breast never looked softer than every rag she had on this very afternoon, and no tender goslin’ itself wuz ever softer than she wuz on the inside on’t. But that didn’t hinder my likin’ her.
Wall, anon, or a little before, we came to that long, long buildin’, beautiful and dretful ornimental, but I could see plain by daylight what I had mistrusted before, that it wuzn’t built for warmth. It must be dretful cold in the winter, and I don’t see how the wimmen folks of the home could stand it, unless they hang up bed quilts and blankets round the side, and then, I should think they would freeze. They couldn’t keep their house plants over winter any way - and I see they had sights of ’em - unless they kep’ ’em down suller.
But howsumever, that is none of my lookout. If they want to be so fashionable, as to try to live out doors and in the house too, that is none of my business. And of course it looked dretful ornimental and pretty. But I will say this, it haint bein’ mejum. I should rather live either out doors, or in the house, one of the 2. But I am a eppisodin’. And to resoom.
Josiah Allen paid the money demanded of him and we went in and advanced onwards to where a boy wuz a pullin’ up the water and handin’ of it round.