For though we are both too sensible to act foolish in sech matters and be partial, yet we both knew there never wuz and probble never would be sech grandchildren as ourn wuz.
And then I had some very valuable receipts I laid out to gin her in cases of croup and colic, sech as young people don’t pay much attention to, but which I knew would jest suit her, and which might come handy for her grandchildren or great-grandchildren. I laid out to write ’em off for her. One or two of ’em wuz in poetry—
“A handful of catnip steeped with care,
With a little lobelia throwed in there,
Mixed with some honey more or less,
Will mitigate the croup’s distress.”
And this—
“Some mustard seed,
Some onion raw,
Applied to chests—