do you really think they
is enny dainger. and father sed not a bit. sumone
is having fun with Ike and Aunt Sarah sed
why do you want to scare him to deth and father
sed sister mine our gentle cussin Isak has had far
two easy a life and it is a good thing to instil into
his mind the idea that moths and rust do corrup
and theeves braik throug and steel. then aunt Sarah
tride not to laff and sed i think it is a shaim to
wurry so good a man as he is and father sed.

sister thou wast mild and luvly
gentle as the summer breaz.

but it is hard to convinse you that desperrit cases
need desperrit remmedies. now this is a desperrit
case. verry desperrit. supose the Terible 3 shood
kidnap Ike and hold him for ransum. who wood
give 5 cents for Ike? who wood give ten, have
i enny offers. maik it 7 1/2 cents. no offers maik
it six. do i have enny offers. no by saint bride of
Bothwel no let the portculis fall. and i wood have
to go throug life uncheered by the companonship
of Ike.

then aunt Sarah sed George do be sensible for
onct in your life. jest onct. are you going to
scare that poor man to deth or not? and father
he sed far from it sweet sister. i shall be kindness
itself. is it kindness in the docter when he
conceles the faital naiture of a diseeze from a diing
man and alows him to go whooping into the vast
beyond without a chanct to repent. is that kindnes
sister? ecco answers not by a dam site sister.
it aint kindnes. it wood have been kindnes to tell
him the gig was up and give him a chanct to maik
his will and pay a few notes and by sum paper
with black eges and 40 or 50 yards of craip for a
fale for his wife.

so it will be my duty, sister, in spite of your
prairs and teers, not to concele from Isak the seerius
nature of the thret maid by the Terible 3. have you
ever reelized how my boyhood was blited by the
thrashings it received becaus i was a bit rude to my
gentle cussen Ike. and do you reelize how many
hundred times he was held up to me as a moddle and
how i was erged sumtimes prairfuly by mother and
moar often strapfuly by father to emulait his vertus.
and do you think, sweet but earring sister that i will
alow sutch a opertunity of asureing him of my pertecksion
and simpathy to pass.

o the demon and his bride
and the grate grate owl
by all his curage tride
in the popes sanbowl

i gess not, Sarah mine. i shall go up and convinse
Isak that the wicked stand in slepery plaices and
that