under other circumstances that mrs had been hunting eggs in a stray nest in the hay had slipped to the floor and been taken up insensible bones were undoubtedly broken y t was a woman and her senses tbe doctor must be found as soon as possible mrs powder hastily put her house to rights and with a good round bundle of what she called her set on the welcome enterprise on tbe way she could hardly keep herself from due cheerfulness and if ever there was likely to be a presence in a sick room il was powder s tliat december day she entered the gloomy kitchen looking like a footed snow her big round shoulders were so heaped with the damp white old sat by the store in utter despair and a limp hand toward the bedroom door she s in a he said hopelessly i ought to thought to send word to pore � all the boy she had mrs powder calmly removed her snowy outer garments and tried to warm her the fire law lane pot in a o sticks of good dry wood suggested in a soothing and felt bis spirits be knew not why then the whole woman walked into the bedroom � � could see related was the end of jane s nose and i just as sure then as i be now that she was likely to but i set down side of the bed and got bolt of her hand and she groaned two or three times real desperate i wished the doctor was there to see if anything really her but i there wa n less t was � a i spoke to her but she never said and i went back out into the kitchen s a tory sick woman says i loud for her to hear me i knew please her there was a good deal to do and i put on my and took right and begun to lay about me and dinner the men folks was for want � it being nigh three o clock an then i got jane to feel more comfortable with of her for all d let me of her � poor i did feel sore i � and then was and i f kind o spent so law i set me down in a cheer by the bed bead and was speechless too i knew if she was able to she could n t hold in no great spell longer after a while she stirred a little and groaned and then says she ain t the tor and i her up well s i could be i bad off t says she � � we u hope for the best says i and that minute the notion come to me bow i d work her round an i like to right out but i did n t � if i should lose me again you must see to for my son says she his father s got no head i will says i real solemn an yon trust me with anything you feel to say sister � she kind of opened her eye that was next to me and surveyed my sharp but i h serious and groaned real honest be i like old mis she whispered and i kind o nodded an my hand up to my eyes too some like her but not nigh so bad for mis was so down hm stairs thai over k aa died the day after � � law lane � oh my i f ha out i t be look away now i � in t a goin to die right off bo i mu powder i ain t the to give ye hope in the midst of life we are in death we ain t � of the next minute none of us says i it general but away like an ou book o sermons i do feel kind o now says she oh t you do � and i come over an set on the foot o the bed an locked right at her i knew she was a dreadful woman and always made a fuss when anything was the matter with her n t bear no kind o pain sister says i don t you bear on your mind yoa d like to see before you go i know yon ain t been at peace with s folks and t none o my business but i should n t want to be called away with hard s in my heart you must my speaking right out but i should want to be so used myself poor old i she had an awful fight of it but she beat her temper for once an in i do forgive all them says she an rolled np her eyes i law lame says to myself that wa n t all i wanted i let her alone a spell and set there as if i expected her to breathe her last any minute she asked for and i said he waa anxious and out for the doctor now the snow d stopped i i could see says she i m all done with the lane now and i d keep the peace if i was goin to live her got weak and i did n t know but she was worse off than s posed i was scared for a minute and then i took a grain o hope i d watched by too many beds not to know the � don t ye let old la make my coffin will ye mis powder she once he s called a good workman a n l he says i as i when il come to her funeral orders t waa more n i could do to hold in i ain t goin through l o e n l in a coffin to please that old 