She wasn't more'n sixteen, and when she found out I was a orphan she was glad, fur she was one herself.

Which Miss Hampton that lived in that house had took her to raise.

And when I tells her how I been travelling around the country all summer she claps her hands and she says: "Oh, you are on a quest! How romantic!" I asts her what is a quest.

And she tells me.

She knowed all about them, fur Martha was considerable of a reader.