"No-o," he admitted.

"I presume that's why he didn't notice it." This explanation, which other people might have found somewhat unsatisfactory, appeared to satisfy Miss Armstrong; at any rate she accepted it without comment.

There was another pause in the conversation.

Then she said: "I don't know, after all, as I ought to call you 'Uncle Jed,' Uncle Jed." "Eh?
Why not, for the land sakes ?" "'Cause uncles make people cry in our family.

I heard Mamma crying last night, after she thought I was asleep.