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he yelled out , `` why should we pompey her ? It is all _ her _ fault . What did she let him live for when he wuz a babe ? She is to the bottom of it , if it had n't been for her lettin ' him live we should n't be in this state , up at midnight , hungry as bears , cold as frogs , and our house a wreck ! '' But how true it is the noisest grief is soonest squenched . At last he gin in and Jabez attacked it agin , and tinkered and puttered at it all day , I watchin ' Josiah clost for fear he would surround Jabez and fall on him and demolish him in his anger . But all the difference his work made it seemed as if the noise wuz a little louder and the flood more tumultious and rushin ' if it could be tumultiouser and rushiner .