Amen and amen!" The worthy Bishop handed the paper back to the enraptured boy, and turned to Joel Rae, who now came up.
"Hello, Brother Rae.

I hear you took on that thirteenth woman of mine.
Much good it'll do you! She was unlucky for me, sure enough-- rambunctious when she was healthy, and lazy when she was sick!" When they came out of the house half an hour later, he added in tones of confidential warning: "Say, you want to look out for her--I see she's getting the red back in her blood!".