You were movin' up and down among them little gals and boys, liftin' up their heads and talkin' to 'em softly and quiet like, ez if you was one of them yourself.

And they looked contented and kam.

And onct--I don't know if YOU remember it--you kem close up to the winder with your hands behind you, and looked out so kam and quiet and so far off, ez if everybody else outside the school was miles away from you.

It kem to me then that I'd given a heap to hev had the old woman see you thar.

It kem to me, Mr.Ford, that there wasn't any place for ME thar; and it kem to me, too--and a little rough like--that mebbee there wasn't any place there for MY Cress either! So I rode away without disturbin' you nor the birds nor the squirrels.