Listen, an' in tellin' you Milly Erne's story I'll show you how love changed her.
"Milly an' me was children when our family moved from Missouri to Texas, an' we growed up in Texas ways same as if we'd been born there.

We had been poor, an' there we prospered.

In time the little village where we went became a town, an' strangers an' new families kept movin' in.

Milly was the belle them days.

I can see her now, a little girl no bigger 'n a bird, an' as pretty.