When Jim Tenny stopped goin' with me last summer, my heart 'most broke.

I don't care if you do know it.

That's what made me so much worse than I used to be.

Oh, my heart 'most broke, Fanny! He's treated me awful, but I can't get over it; and now little Ellen's gone, and I drove her away!" Fanny bent over her sister, and pressed her head close to her bosom.
"Don't you feel so bad, Eva," said she.

"You wasn't any more to blame than I was, and we'll stand by each other as long as we live." "I'll work my fingers to the bone for you and Ellen, and I'll never get married," said Eva again..