`` What on earth is the matter , Mr. Murray ? You ai n't sick now , surely ? I told you them pond fogs was p ` isen after night ! If you 've gone and got -- '' `` Nothing is the matter , dear lady , '' interrupted Murray , `` and I have n't gone and got anything except an acute attack of early rising which is not in the least likely to become chronic . But at what hour of the night do you get up , you wonderful woman ? Or rather do you ever go to bed at all ? Here is the sun only beginning to rise and -- positively yes , you have all your cows milked . '' Mrs. Emory purred with delight . `` Folks as has fourteen cows to milk has to rise betimes , '' she answered with proud humility . `` Laws , I do n't complain -- I 've lots of help with the milking . How Mrs. Palmer manages , I really can not comperhend -- or rather , how she has managed . I suppose she 'll be all right now since her niece came last night . I saw her posting to the pond pasture not ten minutes ago . She 'll have to milk all them seven cows herself . But dear life and heart ! Here I be palavering away and not a bite of breakfast ready for you ! '' `` I do n't want any breakfast until the regular time for it , '' assured Murray . `` I 'm going down to the pond to see the sun rise . '' `` Now do n't you go and get caught in the ma ` sh , '' anxiously called Mrs. Emory , as she never failed to do when she saw him starting for the pond . Nobody ever had got caught in the marsh , but Mrs. Emory lived in a chronic state of fear lest someone should .
`` And if you once got stuck XXXXX that black mud you 'd be sucked right down and never seen or heard tell of again till the day of judgment , like Adam Palmer 's cow , '' she was wont to warn her boarders .
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