“The Croup Is around”—A Slave to Conscience—Caleb Enquires about
Kitty’s Health, and Decides that He May Marry Her—Why He Did
not Write to Her, and why He Wore old Clothes—A Funeral at Log
London—A Load of Company—The Start for Jonesville—Thomas J.
and Maggie—Providence and the Weather—Arrival at Whitfield’s—A
pretty Sight—Portraits of little Samantha Joe and Her Pa and
Ma—The Sun and Sunflower—The Kiss of Welcome—A Talk with
Tirzah Ann, Who Says They Are Going off for Rest and
Pleasure—“Miss Skidmore Is Going, and all genteel People
Go”—Samantha’s Advice, “Better Let Well Enough Alone,” is
Rejected—Who need a Change of Scene and who do not—The
Stiff-necked Miss Skidmore—Who Leads the Jonesville
Aristocracy?—How Samantha Prescribed for her, and Was Winked
out—“Burdock Won’t Help Her”—Proud Keturah Allen—Samantha’s
Ideas of People who Put on Airs and Feel above Her 270-302