Waal , seem ' haow 't was , I tried tew please him , late as it was ; but ef there was ennything I did spleen ag ` inst it was farmin ' , ` specially arfter the smart times I 'd ben hevin ' , up Oldtaown way . Yeou do n't know nothin ' abaout it ; but ef yeou want tew see high dewin 's , jest hitch onto a timber-drive an ' go it daown along them lakes and rivers , say from Kaumchenungamooth tew Punnobscot Bay . Guess yeou 'd see a thing or tew , an ' find livin ' on a log come as handy as ef you was born a turtle . `` Waal , I stood it one summer ; but it was the longest kind of a job . Come fall I turned contry , darned the farm , and vaowed I 'd go back tew loggin ' . Aunt hed got fond er me by that time , and felt dreadful bad abaout my leavin ' on her . Cousin Siah , as we called Josiah , did n't cotton tew the old woman , though he did tew her cash ; but we hitched along fust-rate . She was ` tached tew the place , hated tew hev it let or sold , thought I 'd go to everlastin ' rewin ef I took tew lumberin ' ag ` in , an ' hevin ' a tidy little sum er money all her own , she took a notion tew buy me off . ` Hiram , ' sez she , ` ef yeou 'll stay to hum , merry some smart girl , an ' kerry on the farm , I 'll leave yeou the hull er my fortin . Ef yeou do n't , I 'll leave every cent o n't tew Siah , though he ai n't done as waal by me as yeou hev . Come , ' sez she , ` I 'm breakin ' up like brother ; I sha n't wurry any one a gret while , and ` fore spring I dessay you 'll hev cause tew rejice that yeou done as Aunt Si counselled yeou . ' `` Now , that idee kinder took me , seem ' I hed n't no overpaourin ' love fer cousin ; but I brewdid over it a spell ` fore I ` greed . Fin ` lly , I said I 'd dew it , as it war n't a hard nor a bad trade ; and begun to look raound fer Mis Flint , Jr. . Aunt was dreadf ' l pleased ; but ` mazin ' pertickler as tew who was goin ' tew stan ' in her shoes , when she was fetched up ag ` inst the etarnal boom . There was a sight er likely womenfolks raound taown ; but aunt she set her foot daown that Mis Flint must be smart , pious , an ' good-natered ; harnsome she did n't say nothin ' abaout , bein ' the humliest woman in the State er Maine . I hed my own calk ` lations on that p ` int , an ' went sparkin ' two or three er the pootiest gals , all that winter . I war n't in no hurry , fer merryin ' is an awful resky bizness ; an ' I wa n't goan to be took in by nobuddy . Some haouw I could n't make up my mind which I 'd hev , and kept dodgin ' , all ready to slew raound , an ' hitch on tew ary one that seemed likeliest . ` Long in March , aunt , she ketched cold , took tew her bed , got wuss , an ' told me tew hurry up , fer nary cent should I hev , ef I war n't safely merried ` fore she stepped out . I thought that was ruther craoudin ' a feller ; but I see she was goan sure , an ' I 'd got inter a way er considerin ' the cash mine , so that it come hard to hear abaout givin ' on ' t up .
Off I went that evenin ' an ' asked Almiry Nash XXXXX she 'd hev me .
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