Then I were put to bed a spell, and soft-footed women
waited on me. Then one morning he tolt me he were aiming to peel
them 'ere ingun-skins off my eyes, and for me to have no fears, but
trust in him; that he believed them eye-nerves, shet back thar in
the dark, was still alive and able to do business. And though my
heart shuck like a ager, I laid down on that table same as a
soldier. When I got up, I were blind as ever, with rags tied thick
around my eyes. And I sot there patient day after day, and the
doctor he 'd drap in and cheer me up. 'Aunt Dally,' he would
say--he claimed he never had no time to git out the Dalmanuthy--'in
just a leetle while you 'll be a-trotting around the Blue Grass here
worse 'n a race-hoss; but you got to git your training gradual.'
Then he 'd thin the bandages more and more, till a sort of gray
twilight come a-sifting through. 'And don't think,' he would say,
'that I am aiming to let you lope back to them mountains till I git
you plumb made over. Fust thing is a new set of teeth,--you done
gummed yourself into dyspepsy and gineral cantankerousness,--and
then I 'm sot on taking you to my house to visit a month and eat
good victuals and git your stummick opened up whar it done growed
together, and your mind unj'inted, and your sperrits limbered
similar.
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