I don't like a woman that sets around idle after supper--an' I'm glad you're one to be brisk an' busy about the house, though I'm sorry you ain't over partial to buckwheat.

May I inquire, if you don't object to tellin' me, what is yo' favourite food ?" "It's hard to say--I have so many--bread and jam, I believe." "I hope you don't think I'm too pressin' on the subject, but ma has always said that there wasn't any better bond for matrimony than the same taste in food.

Do you think she's right ?" "I shouldn't wonder.

She's had experience anyway." "Yes, that's jest what I tell her--she's had experience an' she ought to know.

Pa and she never had a word durin' the thirty years of their marriage, an' she always said she ruled him not with the tongue, but with the fryin' pan.