And I don't intend she ever shall know it ain't real praise." His wife was so proud when that piece come out in that New York paper, he said, she cried over it.

She said now she was glad they had been doing without things fur years and years so they could get them little books printed, one after the other, fur now fame was coming.

But sometimes, Daddy Withers says, he suspicions she really knows he has been made a fool of, and is pertending not to see it, fur his sake, the same as he is pertending fur HER sake.

Well, they was a mighty nice old couple, and the doctor done a heap of pertending fur both their sakes--they wasn't nothing else to do.
"How'd you come to get started at it ?" he asts.
Daddy Withers says he don't rightly know.

Mebby, he says, it was living there all his life and watching things growing--watching the cotton grow, and the corn and getting acquainted with birds and animals and trees and things.