I can never cease to admire the industry and model neatness of the Massachusetts housekeeper.

And how is your charming daughter this morning?
Better, I trust ?" "Well, now, Major Hardee, I don't know.

Abbie ain't so well's I wish she was.

She set up a spell yesterday, but the doctor says she ain't gittin' along the way she'd ought to.

I says to him, s'I, 'Abbie ain't never what you'd call a reel hearty eater, but, my land! when she don't eat NOTHIN',' I says--" And so on and so on, with the Major always willing to listen, always sympathetic, and always so charmingly courteous.
The Central House, East Harniss's sole hotel, and a very small one at that, closed its doors on April 10th.