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"Thank you very much for your kind interest, Mrs Se of irl that brooked no further interference

"That's right,it,

but you do see down to put the

potatoes on for dinner If you want anything, just ring your bell"

There was not the least resentirl's answer confirmed her opinion from the first "She

would not send for her husband, because there wasn't no husband to send

for" She mentioned her convictions to her husband and added she ht

"Sister Eliza has an unco'll be hard pushed to pay the doctor, let alone a nurse"

These essentially fe the talents of Sister

Eliza, did not especially interest Smith, who continued his favorite

occupation--or rather, joint occupations, of whittling and

expectorating Nevertheless, the letter to Sister Eliza ritten,

and not a minute sooner than was necessary; for, the little soul that

was to bring with it forgetfulness for all the agony through which its

that awful year, came very soon after the