g ever and talking,
the way I certainly always have seen you do so Melanctha always. I
certainly am right Melanctha about them ways you have to do it, and
I knows it; but you certainly never can noways learn to act right
Melanctha, I certainly do know that, I certainly do my best Melanctha
to help you with it only you certainly never do act right Melanctha,
not to nobody ever, I can see it. You never act right by me Melanctha
no more than by everybody. I never say nothing to you Melanctha when
you do so, for I certainly never do like it when I just got to say it
to you, but you just certainly done with that Jem Richards you always
say wanted real bad to be married to you, just like I always said to
Sam you certainly was going to do it. And I certainly am real kind of
sorry like for you Melanctha, but you certainly had ought to have come
to see me to talk to you, when you first was engaged to him so I could
show you, and now you got all this trouble come to you Melanctha
like I certainly know you always catch it. It certainly ain't never
Melanctha I ain't real sorry to see trouble come so hard to you, but
I certainly can see Melanctha it all is always just the way you always
be having it in you not never to do right. And now you always talk
like you just kill yourself because you are so blue, that certainly
never is Melanctha, no kind of a way for any decent kind of a girl to
do."

Rose had begun to be strong now to scold Melanctha and she was
impatient very often with her, but Rose could now never any more be a
help to her. Melanctha Herbert never could know now what it was right
she should do. Melanctha always wanted to have Jem Richards with her
and now he never seemed to want her, and what could Melanctha do.
Surely she was right now when she said she would just kill herself,
for that was the only way now she could do.

Sam Johnson always, more and more, was good and gentle to Melanctha.
Poor Melanctha, she was so good and sweet to do anything anybody ever
wanted, and Melanctha always liked it if she could have peace and
quiet, and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble. Sam
often said this now to Rose about Melanctha.

"I certainly don't never want Sam to say bad things about Melanctha,
for she certainly always do have most awful kind of trouble come hard
to her, but I never can say I like it real right Sam the way Melanctha
always has to do it. Its now just the same with her like it is always
she