I sh'll take care o' the little woman, and atween you an' I, Parson, it's about the best thing as a man can do.

Takin' care of a woman is the nateral thing for a man, an' no man ain't much as doesn't do it, and glad o' the job." The capacity of a country assembly for cakes, pies, and lemonade, is something quite unique, especially at a morning festival.

If the table groaned at the beginning, it sighed at the close.

The abundance that asserted itself in piles of dainties was left a wreck.

It faded away like a bank of snow before a drift of southern vapor.