But after what David had said, even mad as she was, the thing kind o' got on her nerves, an' she couldn't see a thing, day or night, but that red rose a-growin' there so pert an' courageous-like, until at last, jest ter quiet herself, she fairly had ter set to an' slick that garden up! She said she raked an' weeded, an' fixed up all the plants there was, in good shape, an' then she sent down to the Junction fur some all growed in pots, 'cause 't was too late ter plant seeds.

An, now it's doin' beautiful, so she jest could n't help sendin' them posies ter David.

When I told Mis' Holly, she said she was glad it happened, 'cause what Mis' Somers needed was somethin' ter git her out of herself--an' I'm free ter say she did look better-natured, an' no mistake,--kind o' like a chokecherry in blossom, ye might say." "An' then there's the Widder Glaspell," continued Perry, after a pause.
"'Course, any one would expect she'd feel bad, seein' as how good David was ter her boy--teachin' him ter play, ye know.

But Mis' Glaspell says Joe jest does take on somethin' turrible, an' he won't tech the fiddle, though he was plum carried away with it when David was well an' teachin' of him.

An' there's the Clark kid.