And agin I sez, “It is hard to git everything done, and if folks waited for them circumstances, I guess there wouldn’t be many towers gone off on.”

But she didn’t give in, nor I nuther.  But jest then Miss Bobbet spoke up, and said, “She laid out to go to the World’s Fair—­she wouldn’t miss it for anything; it wuz the oppurtunity of a lifetime for education and pleasure; but she wuz a-goin’ to finish that borrow-and-lend bedquilt of hern before she started a step.  And then the woodwork had got to be painted all over the house, and he was so busy with his spring’s work that she had got to do it herself.”

And I sez, “Couldn’t you let those things be till you come back?”

And she said, “She couldn’t, for she mistrusted she would be all beat out, and wouldn’t feel like it when she got back; paintin’ wuz hard work, and so wuz piecin’ up.”

And I sez, “Then you had ruther go there all tired out, had you?” sez I.  “Seems to me I had ruther go to the World’s Fair fresh and strong, and ready to learn and enjoy, even if I let my borrow-and-lend bedquilt go till another year.  For,” sez I, “bedquilts will be protracted fur beyend the time of seein’ the World’s Fair—­and I believe in livin’ up to my priveleges.”

And she said, “That she wouldn’t want to put it off, for it had been a-layin’ round for several years, and she felt that she wouldn’t go away so fur from home, and leave it onfinished.”

And I see that it wouldn’t do any good to argy with her.  Her mind wuz made up.

Miss Pooler said, “That she wuz a-goin’ to the Fair, and a-goin’ in good season, too.  She wouldn’t miss it for anything in the livin’ world.  But she had got to make a visit all round to his relations and hern before she went.  And,” sez she, a-lookin’ sort o’ reproachful at me,

“I should have thought you would have felt like goin’ round and payin’ ’em all a visit, on both of your sides, before you went,” sez she.  “They would have felt better; and I feel like doin’ everything I can to please the relations.”

And I told Miss Pooler—­“That I never expected to see the day that I hadn’t plenty of relations on my side and on hisen, but I never expected to see another Christopher Columbus World’s Fair, and I had ruther spend my time now with Christopher than with them on either side, spozin’ they would keep.”

But Miss Pooler said, “She had always felt like doin’ all in her power to show respect to the relations on both sides, and make ’em happy.  And she felt that, in case of anything happenin’, she would feel better to know she had made ’em all a last visit before it happened.”

“What I am afraid will happen, Miss Pooler,” sez I, “is that you won’t git to the World’s Fair at all, for they are numerous on both sides, and widespread,” sez I.  “It will take sights and sights of time for you to go clear round.”

But I see that she wuz determined to have her way, and I didn’t labor no more with her.