I'll git the credit of givin' a big lot of money, and that'll set me up a long time wid the congregation, and you git the five dollars all the same." "Mike," said Phoebe, solemnly, "don't you go and do dat; mind, I tell you, don't you do dat.

You give me them five dollars, and jes' let that c'lection alone.

No use you wearin' youself out a walkin' to chu'ch, and all the feedin' and milkin' to do besides." Mike laughed.

"I reckon you think five dollars in th' pahm of th' hand is better than a whole c'lection in the bush.

I'll see th' boss before you go, and if he's got the money, he'll let me have it." Satisfied on this point, Phoebe now declared that she must go and deliver her letter; but she first inquired how her husband was getting on, and how he was treated by Molly Tooney.
"I ain't got no use for that woman;" and he proceeded to tell his wife of the insult that had been passed on his crops.
"That's brazen impidence," said Phoebe, "and jes' like her.