Stephen and I were christened there.

But, of course, if you had rather go somewhere else--" "No, no! I hadn't anywhere in particular to go.

I'm a Congregationalist to home, but Abbie says I've spread my creed so wide that it ain't more'n an inch deep anywhere, and she shouldn't think 'twould keep me afloat.

I tell her I'd rather navigate a broad and shallow channel, where everybody stands by to keep his neighbor off the shoals, than I would a narrow and crooked one with self-righteousness off both beams and perdition underneath.
"You see," he added, reflectively, "the way I look at it, it's a pretty uncertain cruise at the best.

Course there's all sorts of charts, and every fleet is sartin it's got the only right one.