```And got back, and goin' to 'ply ```Fer school-license by and by-- ```And where's 'Lijy workin' at? ```And how's 'Aunt' and 'Uncle Jake'? ```How wuz 'Old Maje'--and the cat? ```And wuz Marthy's baby fat ```As his 'Humpty-Dumpty' ma!-- [Illustration: 0073] [Illustration: 0075] ```Sweetest thing she ever saw!-- ```Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too, ```Soon as she turned in and got ```Supper fer us--smokin'-hot-- ```And the 'dishes' all wuz through.--" ```_Sich_ a supper! W'y, I set ```There and et, and et, and et!-- ```Jes et on, tel Jonas he ```Pushed his chair back, laughed, and says, ```"I could walk _his_ log!" [Illustration: 0077] [Illustration: 0080] `````And we ```All laughed then, tel 'Viry she ```Lit the lamp--and I give in!-- ```Riz and kissed her: "Heaven bless ```You!" says I--"you're home ag'in-- ```Same old dimple in your chin, ```Same white apern," I-says-ee, ```"Same sweet girl, and good to see ```As your _mother_ ust to be,-- ```And I' got you home ag'in-- `````Home ag-'in with me!"... [Illustration: 0082] [Illustration: 0084] [Illustration: 0085] [Illustration: 0086] [Illustration: 0088] `````And by and by ```Heerd Elviry, soft and low, ```At the organ, kind o' go ```A mi-anderin' up and down ```With her fingers 'mongst the keys- ```"Vacant Chair" and "Old Camp- `````Groun'."... ```Dusk was moist-like, with a breeze ```Lazin' round the locus'-trees... ```Heerd the hosses champin', and ```Jonas feedin'--and the hogs-- ```Yes, and katydids and frogs-- ```And a tree-toad, som'er's... [Illustration: 0090] [Illustration: 0092] `````Heerd ```Also whipperwills.--My land!-- ```All so mournful ever'where-- ```Them out here, and her in there, ```That the whole thing railly 'peared ```'Most like 'tendin' _Services!_ ```_Anyway_, I must 'a' jes ```Kind o' drapped asleep, I guess; ```'Cause when Jonas must 'a' passed ```Me, a-comin' in, I knowed ```Nothin' of it--yit it seemed ```Sort o' like I kind o' dreamed ```'Bout him, too, a-slippin' in, [Illustration: 0094] [Illustration: 0096] ```And a-watchin' back to see ```Ef I _wuz_ asleep--and then ```Passin' in where 'Viry wuz-- ```And where, I declare, it does ```'Pear to me I heerd him say, ```Wild and glad and whisperin'-- ```'Peared-like heerd him say, says-ee ```"Ah! I' got you home ag'in-- ````Home ag'in witn me!" [Illustration: 0098] [Illustration: 0100] End of Project Gutenberg's Home Again With Me, by James Whitcomb Riley