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names-on-the-page: Mr. Bacon (Mr. B), Mrs. Bacon, Patience, Mrs. C. Mrs. H,

transcription: Mr. Bacon: "She's punning my name."
Patience: "Hath thee salted that?"
Mrs. C: "She often gives us this kind of wit before we get the beautiful messages."
Patience: "Ye like the taste? I deem ye crave for soldier meat."
Mr. B: "I think this kind of message as convincing and important as the other kind."
Patience: "Whyffs to him who draws are fancy-breeders; but he who hungers filleth not 'pon smoke."
Mrs. H: "Patience, will you tell us what you really meant by that remark?"
Patience: "Yes to draw a full pail and cast it back into the well, to draw again is to my fancy."
Mrs. C: "She always keeps to the ideas of her own times. I wonder if she knows how times have changed."
Patience: "Nay, but geese are geese unto the world's end."
Mrs. C: "After she's given us a roast she lets us have some beautiful poetry."
Patience: "Perchance thee hath a hope o' feeding upon folly and dining upon choicer viands at thy meal's end." (After a pause -- ) "Whose fingers plied the needle to build the coverlid thee prizeth so?"
Mrs. H: "Which coverlid, Patience?"
Patience: "A garden's friendly blossom bloometh thereon."
Mrs. Bacon told us the comforter had been made by her brother for her wedding and was much prized.
Mrs. H: 'What do you think of the cosmos coverlid that Mrs. B's brother made her?"
Patience: "A soft lining to her newst."
Mrs. H: "What else do you see in the little wren's home?" (Referring to Mrs. B.)
Patience: "To build upon a mountain top thy home and call the mount its base, is folly, for love needeth not a mountaintop to strengthen its foundation. A home founded upon love itself is thine, and when quakes shall cast asunder mountainside and valley. love remaineth."
Mrs. H: "Patience, have you entered into the perfect love of this little home?"
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