Part 37 (1/2)

”Oh, I _can't_ make you so much trouble; I couldn't think of it I'll walk?I don't mind the distance”

”But on't _let_ you walk?it wouldn't be Southern hospitality to do it Coht in”

”Oh, _do_,” says Aunt Sally; ”it ain't a bit of trouble to us, not a bit in the world You , dusty three mile, and we can't let you walk And, besides, I've already told 'e; so you ht in and make yourself at home”

So Tom he thanked them very hearty and handsome, and let himself be persuaded, and coer from Hicksville, Ohio, and his name was William Thompson?and he made another bow

Well, he run on, and on, and on,up stuff about Hicksville and everybody in it he could invent, and I getting a little nervious, and wondering how this was going to help , he reached over and kissed Aunt Sally right on the ain in his chair co; but she jumped up and wiped it off with the back of her hand, and says:

”You owdacious puppy!”

He looked kind of hurt, and says:

”I'm surprised at you, m'aood notion to take and?Say, what do youme?”

He looked kind of hu, ht you'd like it”

”Why, you born fool!” She took up the spinning stick, and it looked like it was all she could do to keep fro him a crack with it

”What made you think I'd like it?”

”Well, I don't know Only, they?they?told me you would”

”_They_ told you I would Whoever told you's _another_ lunatic I never heard the beat of it Who's _they_?”

”Why, everybody They all said so, m'am”

It was all she could do to hold in; and her eyes snapped, and her fingers worked like she wanted to scratch him; and she says:

”Who's 'everybody'? Out with their naot up and looked distressed, and fumbled his hat, and says:

”I' it They told me to They all told me to They all said, kiss her; and said she'd like it They all said it?every one of them But I'm sorry, m'am, and I won't do it no more?I won't, honest”

”You won't, won't you? Well, I sh'd _reckon_ you won't!”

”No'ain?till you ask me”

”Till I _ask_ you! Well, I never see the beat of it in my born days!