And knowin' his own motives wuz so high and
loyal, he felt that he ort to whip her, so he did.
And what shows that Drusilly wuzn't so bad after all and did have her good
streaks and a deep reverence for the law is, that she stood his whippin's
first-rate, and never whipped him. Now she wuz fur bigger than he wuz,
weighed eighty pounds the most, and might have whipped him if the law had
been such. But they wuz both law-abidin' and wanted to keep every preamble,
so she stood it to be whipped, and never once whipped him in all the
seventeen years they lived together. She died when her twelfth child wuz
born. There wuz jest ten months difference between that and the one next
older. And they said she often spoke out in her last sickness, and said,
"Thank fortune, I've always kep' the law!" And they said the same thought
wuz a great comfort to him in his last moments. He died about a year after
she did, leavin' his second wife with twins and a good property.
Then there wuz Abagail Pester. She married a sort of a high-headed man,
though one that paid his debts, wuz truthful, good lookin', and played well
on the fiddle. Why, it seemed as if he had almost every qualification for
makin' a woman happy, only he had this one little eccentricity, he would
lock up Abagail's clothes every time he got mad at her.
Of course the law give her clothes to him, and knowin' that it wuz the
law in the state where they lived, she wouldn't have complained only when
they had company.
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