"If she has a husband, he don't know he's the father of this here baby.

Don't you see that a woman couldn't 'a' carried a heavy baskit any great distance?
She couldn't 'a' packed it from Boggs City er New York er Baltimore, could she?
She wouldn't 'a' been strong enough.

No, siree; she didn't have far to come, folks.

An' she was a woman, 'cause ain't all typewritin' done by women?
You don't hear of men typewriters, do you?
People wouldn't have 'em.
Now, the thing fer me to do first is to make a house-to-house search to see if I c'n locate a typewritin' machine anywheres.

Get out of the way, Toby.