What Maggie said about her makin' a change kinder staid with me. Great is the power of suggestion. She suggested it to me, and I passed on the influence to my pardner.
I sez, "We've worked hard, and why not rest off and take a little comfort?"
"Comfort! Who ever took any comfort a-visitin'! Bound up in your best clothes settin' round and talkin' polite."
"Your clothes don't bind you, Josiah, and you know I always seek comfort first, hopin' mebby good lookin' things may be added unto me. And as for politeness, you don't strain yourself much that way, and I'd love to see some of these friends we owe visits to."
He sez, "Don't you want to go to Nestle Down agin?" And I sez, "No, I did all the nestlin' I wanted to once."
Well, it wuz a number of days before he gin his consent, but finally he did, and we sot off, and our first visit wuz to Alcander and Fidelia Pogram's.
We had been owin' 'em visits for some time. They're movin' planets, and revolve round considerable, and always have. We are stars, Josiah and me, that are more fixed in our orbits. It wuz on one of Alcanderses revolutions (with of course his satellite Fidelia a-revolvin' round him) that they lived neighbor to us for over two years, and I got real attached to Fidelia. She is a con-
