But I didn't say so right out.

I see that she wouldn't give up the idee.
And besides the stockin's, which wuz goin' to devour a fearful amount of time, she had got to embroider three night-shirts for Whitfield with fine linen floss.
Then I argued with her agin.

Sez I, "Good land! I don't believe that Christopher Columbus ever had any embroidered night-shirts." Sez I, "If he had waited to have them embroidered, and shell-work stockin's knit, we might have not been discovered to this day.

But," sez I, "good, sensible creeter, he knew better than to do it when he had everything else on his hands.

And," sez I, "with all your housework to do--and hot weather a-comin' on--I don't see how you are a-goin' to git 'em all done and git to the Fair." And she said, "She had ruther come late, prepared, than to go early with everything at loose ends." "But," sez I, "good plain sensible night-shirts and Lyle-thread stockin's hain't loose--they hain't so loose as them you are knittin'." But I see that I couldn't break it up, so I desisted in my efforts.
Maggie, though she is only my daughter-in-law, takes after me more in a good many things than Tirzah Ann duz, who is my own step-daughter.
Curious, but so it is.
Now, she and I felt jest alike in this.
Who--who wuz a-goin' to notice what you had on to the World's Fair; and providin' we wuz clean and hull, and respectable-lookin', who wuz a-goin' to know or care whether our stockin's wuz open work or plain knittin'?
There, with all the wonder and glory of the hull world spread out before our eyes, and the hull world there a-lookin' at it, a-gazin' at strange people, strange customs, strange treasures and curiosities from every land under the sun--wonders of the earth and wonders of the sea, marvels of genius and invention, and marvels of grandeur and glory, of Art and Nature, and the hull world a-lookin' on, and a-marvellin' at 'em.