Martha would of give anything if she could of only been found in a basket like me, I could see that.

But she wasn't.

She had jest been left a orphan when her folks died.

They wasn't even no hopes she had been changed at birth fur another one.

But I seen down in under everything Martha kind o' thought mebby one of them nights might come a-prancing along and wed her in spite of herself, or she would be carried off, or something.