The idee! He said he thought it would be too much for her to go round to all the relatives--wall, mebby it wuz that! But I shall always have my thoughts.) But anyway, when he made up his mind to leave her, he gin the nurse strict orders to not go down into the city below a certain street, which wuz a good high one, and not let The Little Maid out of her sight night or day.
[Illustration: He gin the nurse strict orders.] Wall, the nurse knew it wuz wrong--she knew it, but she did it.

Jest as Cain did, and jest as David did, when he killed Ury, and Joseph's brother and Pharo, and you and I, and the relations on his side and on yourn.
She knew she hadn't ort to.

But bein' out a-walkin' with The Little Maid one day, a home-sick feelin' come over her all of a sudden.

She wanted to see her sister--wanted to, like a dog.
So, as the day wuz very fair, she thought mebby it wouldn't do any hurt.
The sky was so blue between the green boughs of the Park! There had been a rain, and the glistenin' green made her think of the hedgerows of old England, where she and Katy used to find birds' nests, and the blue wuz jest the shade of the sweet old English violets.

How she and Katy used to love them! And the blue too wuz jest the color of Katy's eyes when she last see them, full of tears at partin' from her.
She thought of Elnathan's sharp orders not to go down into the city, and not to let The Little Maid out of her sight.
Wall, she thought it over, and thought that mebby if she kep one of her promises good, she would be forgive the other.
Jest as the Israelites did about the manny, and jest as You did when you told your wife you would bring her home a present, and come home early--and you bore her home a bracelet, at four o'clock in the mornin'.
And jest as I did when I said, under the influence of a stirring sermon, that I wouldn't forgit it, and I would live up to it--wall, I hain't forgot it.
But tenny rate, the upshot of the matter wuz that the nurse thought she would keep half of the Master's orders--she wouldn't let The Little Maid out of her sight.
So she hired a cab--she had plenty of money, Elnathan didn't stent her on wages.