thought to thousand hens
was cakling. they jest give it to me and father.
father looked stern and serius but i thougt i cood
see sumthing in his eys that looked like he wanted to
laff, but mother dident look a bit like laffing. bimeby
when they had talked about a hour it seamed to me
they stoped. then father sed now young ladies i
am a grate deel older then you are and have tride
to look at the matter on both sides. why father aint
within a most a hundred years so old as eny of
them but he gnew how to pleese them. mother
looked mad but father went on. as for you Missis
Peezly nobody here ever heard of you having fits
or ennything else. i goke a good deel to home here
and i never goke about peeple i dont like. it is
always about peeple for which i have the greatest
respec and liking. i may have sed sumthing like
what he sed and if i did i hadent augt to have did
it, and woodent have did it if i had suposed that
this boy woodent have gnew better than to have
took it serius. i beg your pardon verry sincerely
and this boy must do it two. so father he done it
and i had to do it a 2th time. well she told father
she was sorry she lost her temper with him for
evrybody sed he was a perfick gentleman, but she
still thougt the boy had augt to be punished verry
sevearly for mottifiing her so. father he sed she
mite be very sure he wood attend to that and he
glore at me when he sed it as if he wood cut me into
40 peaces and she sed good nite to father and good
nite to mother and mother looked at her as if she
wasent there and old Missis Peezly tirned red and
snifed and went out stifleged.

then father he sed to Rody Shatuck now Missis
Shatuck the last thing in the wirld that a yung lady
shood be ashamed of is to be slite and graiceful.
that is one of the menny things you had augt to be
proud of. there isnt a fat woman in this town
whitch dusent envy you for your graice and activity,
of coarse the boy was very infortunate in
his choice of words but i asure you that the only
thing he did was to call two publick atension to your
verry atractive figure. i am real sorry i was not
there to taik advantage of a most unusual oportunity.
and then old Rody gigled and sed she had
been told she had a fine figure but she dident like
to be told like i told it and father glore at me again
and sed it woodent happen again and she sed goodnite
to father and to mother and mother looked at
her as if she wasent there at all and she tirned r