More'n that, if you really like Marthy's dishes and are going to take care of them and use them right, I'll give you mine, too.
I ain't never had a girl.

I've always hoped she'd 'a' had some jedgment of her own, and not been eternally apin', if I had, but the Lord may 'a' saved me many a disappointment by sendin' all mine boys.

Not that I'm layin' the babies on to the Lord at all----I jest got into the habit of sayin' that, 'cos everybody else does, but all mine, I had a purty good idy how I got them.

If a girl of mine wouldn't 'a' had more sense, raised right with me, I'd' a' been purty bad cut up over it.

Of course, I can't be held responsible for the girls my boys married, but t'other day Emmeline----that's John's wife----John is the youngest, and I sort o' cling to him----Emmeline she says to me, 'Mother, can't I have this old pink and green teapot ?' My heart warmed right up to the child, and I says, 'What do you want it for, Emmeline ?' And she says, 'To draw the tea in.' Cracky Dinah! That fool woman meant to set my grandmother's weddin' present from her pa and ma, dishes same as Marthy Washington used, on the stove to bile the tea in.