Ah just told mah fathaw that if he was evah goin' to do anything with his wrahtings, he had got to come No'th, and Ah made him come.

Ah believe he'd have stayed in the Soath all his lahfe.

And now Mr.Fulkerson wants him to let his editor see some of his wrahtings, and Ah wanted to know something aboat the magazine.

We awe a great deal excited aboat it in this hoase, you know, Mr.Beaton," she concluded, with a look that now transferred the interest from Fulkerson to Alma.

She led the way back to the room where they were sitting, and went up to triumph over Fulkerson with Beaton's decision about the table-cover.
Alma was left with Beaton near the piano, and he began to talk about the Dryfooses as he sat down on the piano-stool.