queried Anne . `` Oh , he rumpussed a bit . But he 's going to see a skinny old maid in Millersville now , and I guess she 'll take him fast enough . She 'll make him a better wife than his first did . W.O. never wanted to marry her . He just asked her to marry him 'cause his father wanted him to , never dreaming but that she 'd say ` no . ' But mind you , she said ` yes . ' There was a predicament for you . Jog along , black mare . She was a great housekeeper , but most awful mean . She wore the same bonnet for eighteen years . Then she got a new one and W.O. met her on the road and did n't know her . Jog along , black mare . I feel that I 'd a narrer escape . I might have married him and been most awful miserable , like my poor cousin , Jane Ann . Jane Ann married a rich man she did n't care anything about , and she has n't the life of a dog . She come to see me last week and says , says she , ` Sarah Skinner , I envy you . I 'd rather live in a little hut on the side of the road with a man I was fond of than in my big house with the one I 've got . ' Jane Ann 's man ai n't such a bad sort , nuther , though he 's so contrary that he wears his fur coat when the thermometer 's at ninety . The only way to git him to do anything is to coax him to do the opposite .
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