“And you never come up when I am at home?”

“It isn’t every time I can get to go up, I’m that busy here most days.”

“Only the days when I am absent can you ‘get to go up’?” he would say teasingly. “Don’t I ever deserve a visit?”

“Cass don’t get time fer visitin’ these days. Since Frale lef’ she have all his work an’ hern too on her, an’ mine too, only the leetle help she gets out’n Hoyle, an’ hit hain’t much,” said the mother. “Doctah, don’t ye guess I can get up an’ try walkin’ a leetle?”

“If you will promise me you will only try it when I am here to help you, I will take off the weight, and we’ll