"Good-by," she called,
as she stood in the door, "you've seen the last of me!"
"No such luck!" he said, and whipped up his horse.
Charity baked a great pile of biscuits, and left them
on the kitchen table with a pitcher of skimmed milk.
(She wouldn't give him anything to complain of, not she!)
She then put a few clothes in a bundle, and, tying on her shaker,
prepared to walk to Pleasant River, twelve miles distant.
As she locked the door and put the key in its accustomed place
under the mat, a pleasant young man drove up and explained
that he was the advance agent of the Sypher's Two-in-One
Menagerie and Circus, soon to appear in that vicinity.
He added that he should be glad to give her five tickets
to the entertainment if she would allow him to paste a few
handsome posters on that side of her barn next the road;
that their removal was attended with trifling difficulty,
owing to the nature of a very superior paste invented by himself;
that any small boy, in fact, could tear them off in an hour,
and be well paid by the gift of a ticket.
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