I've thought up a s'lootion; an' it's apples to ashes that inside of twenty-four hours I has Jennie pettin' an' cossetin' Dave to beat four of a kind.

Leave this yere matter to me entire.' "We-all can't see jest how Peets is goin' to work these mir'cles; still, sech is our faith, we believes.

We decides among ourse'fs, however, that if Peets does turn this pacific trick it'll ondoubted be the crownin' glory of his c'reer.
"After Peets hangs up his bluff, we goes about strainin' eyes an' y'ears for any yells or signal smokes that denotes the advent of said changes.
An', son, hard as it is to credit, it comes to pass like Peets prognosticates.

By next evenin' a great current of tenderness for Dave goes over Jennie all at once.

She begins to call him 'Davy'-- a onheard of weakness!--an' hovers about him askin' whatever he thinks he needs; in fact, she becomes that devoted, it looks like the little Enright Peets'll want he'p next to play his hand for him.