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J. (delightedly). That’s the talk, dad.

Mrs. P. Well, I dunno. It seems to me mighty resky. However, if he must go, he’ll have to wait till I’ve knit him some winter stockings. He’s most out.

J. I kin buy some in Bostown, marm. They’ve got plenty there.

Mrs. P. (contemptuously). And what are they worth I should like to know? Boughten stockin’s won’t stand any wear at all. Then, there’s your shirts; you aint got but three.

J. Well, there’s enuff; I kin wear one a week, an’ three’s enough to shift with.

Dea. P. You’ll have to be more partic’lar in the city. I’ve heard that some folks in the city wear as many as three clean shirts in a week.

Mrs. P. They must be awful dirty to need changin’ so often. But I guess, Jonathan, you’d better have one more made.

J. Well, you kin send the shirt and the stockin’s to me by express. I’ve made up my mind to go next week.

Mrs. P. An’ what’ll Mary Jane Parker say to that?

J. I don’t care.

Mrs. P. I thought you were sweet on her only a little while ago.