Illinois done splendid.

I want her to know how I appreciated it.

She'll be glad to know how riz up I felt there.
Wall, when we left there we had a little dialogue--not mad exactly, but earnest.
I wanted to go and see Great Britain, and Josiah wanted to go to Vermont (he has got a third cousin a-livin' there, and he wanted to see him).
"Wall," sez I, "we've got a mother to tend to; the Mother Country calls for a little filial attention." "Oh, shaw!" sez he; "I guess you feel more related than they do; and," sez he, "I shall go to Vermont.

Mebby I shall meet Bildad Allen right there in the settin'-room." So there it wuz--we wuz both determined.

I see by my companion's mean that it wouldn't do to insist on Great Britain.
But a woman hates to give in awful.