"How could we git on it?" sez I coldly.
"Catch on," sez he; "it would be worth everything to both on us to make us spry and limber-jinted."
"Oh, shaw!" sez I; "your idees are luny—luny as can be; it has got to go by electricity."
"Wall," sez he, "I never see any sharper lightnin' than we have to Jonesville. I believe I could git the machinery all rigged up, and catch lightnin' enough to run it. I mean to try, anyway."
"Wall," sez I, "I guess that you won't want to be elevated by lightnin' more'n once; I guess that that would be pretty apt to end your experiments."
"Oh, wall," sez he, "break it up! I never in my hull life tried to do sunthin' remarkable and noteworthy but what you put a drag on to me."
Sez I, "I have saved your life, Josiah Allen, time and agin, to say nothin' of my own."
He wuz mad, but I drawed his attention off onto a ocean cable, and asked him to explain it to me how the news went; and he wuz happy once more—happier than I wuz by fur. I wuz wretched, and had got myself into a job of weariness onspeakable and confusion, etc., and so forth.
But to such immense sacrifices will a woman's love lead her.