But she wuzn't one of 'em; she could not, and would not, take comfort with things ondone on her mind." And I sez, "If folks don't take any comfort with the memories of things ondone on 'em, I guess that there wouldn't be much comfort took, for, do the best we can in this world, we have to leave some things ondone.

We can't do everything." "Wall," she said, "she should, never should, go off on towers till everything wuz done." And agin I sez, "It is hard to git everything done, and if folks waited for them circumstances, I guess there wouldn't be many towers gone off on." But she didn't give in, nor I nuther.

But jest then Miss Bobbet spoke up, and said, "She laid out to go to the World's Fair--she wouldn't miss it for anything; it wuz the oppurtunity of a lifetime for education and pleasure; but she wuz a-goin' to finish that borrow-and-lend bedquilt of hern before she started a step.

And then the woodwork had got to be painted all over the house, and _he_ was so busy with his spring's work that she had got to do it herself." And I sez, "Couldn't you let those things be till you come back ?" And she said, "She couldn't, for she mistrusted she would be all beat out, and wouldn't feel like it when she got back; paintin' wuz hard work, and so wuz piecin' up." And I sez, "Then you had ruther go there all tired out, had you ?" sez I.
"Seems to me I had ruther go to the World's Fair fresh and strong, and ready to learn and enjoy, even if I let my borrow-and-lend bedquilt go till another year.

For," sez I, "bedquilts will be protracted fur beyend the time of seein' the World's Fair--and I believe in livin' up to my priveleges." And she said, "That she wouldn't want to put it off, for it had been a-layin' round for several years, and she felt that she wouldn't go away so fur from home, and leave it onfinished." And I see that it wouldn't do any good to argy with her.