purpose of bringing to the county the person they considered the most
suitable as a husband for their protege.

"It was my idee, my idee!" Pete Barnes declared.

The happiest of all the friends of the young couple was old Billy.

"Marse Jeff done tol' me Miss Ann wa'n't never ter want an' now, bless
Bob, he's gonter come an' live with us-alls an' look arfter the whole
bilin'. I sho' air glad he's gonter come here instead er us havin' ter
pick up an' go wharever he is. The portulac air comin' up so pretty in
my box an' my jewraniums air a bloomin', an' I done made Mandy one
willin' husband, an' Miss Ann air so brisk an' happy it would go hard
on us all ter have ter be movin'. A ol' hen air took ter settin' in
the ca'ige which makes it seem moughty homified. I'd sho' be proud ter
think me'n Miss Ann could live ter see the day that little chilluns
would be playin' stage coach an' injun in Miss Ann's ol' rockaway."

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