ain't one o' them that talks, but I do feel sich an interest in the pore motherless child, an' when I seen Brother Hodges a-takin' him away, I thought perhaps he was a-goin' to take him to raise."
"Well, Brother Hodges ain't a-goin' to take him to raise."
"Mercy sakes! Miss Hester, don't git mad, but who is?"
"I am, that's who."
"Miss Prime, what air you a-sayin'? You shorely don't mean it. What kin you do with a child?"
"I kin train him up in the way he ought to go, an' keep him out o' other people's houses an' the street."
"Well, o' course, that 's somethin'," said Mrs. Martin, weakly.
"Somethin'? Why, it's everything."
The visitor had now gotten the information for which she was looking, and was anxious to be gone. She was absolutely bursting with her news.
"Well, I must be goin'," she said, replacing her shawl and standing in embarrassed indecision. "I only run in fur a minute. I hope you ain't got no hard feelin's at my inquisitiveness."
