I came down to see if--if there wasn't something I could do." "Well, 'course you can ask--there ain't no law ag'in' that; an' ye needn't be afraid, neither.

The report has got 'round that it's ketchin'-- what he's got, and that he got it down to the Glaspells'; but 't ain't so.

The doctor says he didn't ketch nothin', an' he can't give nothin'.

It's his head an' brain that ain't right, an' he's got a mighty bad fever.

He's been kind of flighty an' nervous, anyhow, lately.
"As I was sayin', 'course you can ask, but I'm thinkin' there won't be nothin' you can do ter help.