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[Gooslin Sivills]

E claw-footed mahogany table and the old secretary and mother's cherry
sideboard and such things as that, and brother Joe turned around and
says to me, says he: "'Is there anything you want, Jane? If there is,
speak up and make it known.' And I says: 'The rest of you can take what
you want of the furniture, and if there's anything left, that can be my
part. If there ain't anything left, there'll be no quarrelin'; for
there's jest one thing I want, and that's grandmother's rose.' "They all
laughed, and sister Mary says, 'Ain't that jest like Jane?' and brother
Joe says, says he: "'You shall have it, Jane, and further than that,
I'll see to the transplantin'.' "That very evenin' he come over, and I
showed him where I wanted the rose to stand. He dug 'way down into the
clay--there's nothin' a rose likes better, child, than good red
clay--and got a wheelbarrer load o' soil from the woods, and we put that
in first and set the roots in it and packed 'em good and firm, first
with woods' soil, then with clay, waterin' it all the time. When we got
through, I says: 'Now, you pretty thing you, if you could come all the
way from Virginia in a old iron kittle, you surely won't mind bein'
moved from father's place to mine. Now you've got to live and bloom for
me same as you did for mother.' "You needn't laugh, child. That rose
knew jest what I said, and did jest what I told it to do. It looked like
everything favored us, for it was early in the spring, things was
beginnin' to put out leaves, and the next day was cloudy and cool. Then
it began to rain, and rained for thirty-six hours right along. And when
the sun come out, grandmother's rose come out, too. No
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