bring you here because I thought you was crazy, but because I wanted you to see what kind of people they was who imagined themselves earls and earlesses, an' all that sort o' thing, an' to have an idea how the thing worked after you'd been doing it a good while an' had got used to it. I thought it would be a good thing, while I was Earl Jiguel and you was a noble earless, to come to a place where people acted that way. I knowed you had read lots o' books about knights and princesses an' bloody towers, an' that you knowed about all them things, but I didn't suppose you did know how them same things looked in these days, an' a lunertic asylum was the only place where you could see 'em. So I went to a doctor I know'd,' he says, ' an' got a certificate from him to this private institution, where we could stay for a while an' get posted on romantics.'
"'Then,' says I, 'the upshot was that you wanted to teach a lesson.'
"'Jus' that,' says he.
"'All right,' says I; 'it's teached. An' now let's get out of this as quick as we kin.'
"'That'll suit me,' he says, 'an' we'll leave by the noon train. I'll go an' see about the trunk bein' sent down.'
"So off he went to see the man who kept the house, while I falls to packin' up the trunk as fast as I could."
"Weren't you dreadfully angry at him?" asked Euphemia, who, having a romantic streak in her own composition, did not sympathize altogether with this heroic remedy for Pomona's disease.
"No, ma'am," said Pomona, "not long. When I thought of Mrs. General Jackson and Tom Thumb, I couldn't help thinkin' that I must have looked pretty much the same to my husband, who, I knowed
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