Eli

" ...] The supper things were cleared away. The children had said good-night and gone to bed, and Eli had been sitting for an hour by his wife's bedside. He had had to tax his patience and ingenuity heavily during the long months that she had lain there to entertain her for a little while in the evening, after his hard, wet day's work. He had been talking now of the coming week, when he was to serve upon the jury in the adjoining county-town. "I cal'late I can come home about every night," he said, "and it 'll be quite a change, at any rate." "But you don't seem so cheerful about it as I counted you would be," said his wife. "Are you afraid you'll have to be on the ...]."