Aunt Tryphenia looked meachin', and Uncle Ezra put his hat right on and went out to the barn.
It wuz dretful embarrissin' to him and Aunt Tryphenia.

But then I don't know as they could have helped it.
I remember hearin' Father and Mother arguin' about it.

Father thought she done right, but Mother wuz kinder of the opinion that she ort to have run the prayer right on and let the sugar spile if necessary.
But I remember Father's arguin' that he didn't believe her prayer would have been very lucid or fervent, with all that batch of sugar a-sizzlin' and a-burnin' right by the side of her.
I remember that he said that a prayer wouldn't be apt to ascend much higher than where one's hopes and thoughts wuz, and he didn't believe it would go up much higher than that kettle.

(The stove wuz the common height, not over four feet.) But Mother held to her own opinion, and so did a good many of the relations, mostly females.

It wuz talked over quite a good deal amongst the Smiths.