Contentsome

If thou continuest in thy body, 'tis easie for thee, and sweet and contentsome to heap up treasures for eternity: and if thou partest from it, thy hopes are great and fair that the journey thou art going is to a world of unknown felicity.

I hope you've had a contentsome winter isnt^([sic]) it joyous to feel spring is on the way—leastways that the winter has probably done its worst for this year it busted my pipes.

Martha, Nan's sister-in-law, comforts the baby; she says her own child '“was wonderful contentsome.”'