There wuz a deep, cool rivulet a-gurglin' along over the pebbles, and the green, moist rushes--why, you could almost hear it.
And the blue sky above--why, you could almost see right up through it, it looked so clear and transparent.

And the cattle a-comin'up through the bars to be milked.

Why, you could almost hear the girl call, "Co, boss! co, boss!" as she stood by the side of the bars with her sun-bunnet a-hangin' back from her pretty face, and her milk-pail on her arm.
[Illustration: "Co, boss! co, boss!"] Why, you could fairly hear the swash, swash of the water, as the old brindle cow plashed through its cool waves.
It beat all I ever see, and Josiah felt jest as I did.

The beautiful face of the girl looked dretful familiar to me, though I couldn't tell for my life who it wuz that she looked so much like.
And there on every side of us wuz jest as pretty pictures as that, and some white marble figures, that stood up almost as big as life on their marble pedestals, and aginst the dark red draperies.
Why, take it all in all, it was the prettiest room I had ever looked at in my life, and so I told Mr.Freeman.
And, if you'll believe it, that man up and said right there that we wuz perfectly free to use that room jest as much as we wanted to.
He said he had another room as large as this that he staid in most of his time when he was at home--his writin'-desk wuz in that room.

But he was not here much of the time, only to sleep and to his meals.
And as he said this, what should that almost angel man do but to put a key in my hand, so Josiah and I could come in any time, whether he wuz here or not.
Why, I wuz fairly dumbfoundered, and so wuz Josiah.