I wish we could find out more about them while they lived there." Asaph Tidditt pulled his beard thoughtfully.
"Well," he observed, "maybe we can, if we want to, though I don't think what we find out 'll amount to nothin'.

I was kind of cal'latin' to go to Orham next week on a little visit.

Seth Wingate over there--Barzilla Wingate's cousin, Whit--is a sort of relation of mine, and we visit back and forth every nine or ten year or so.

The ten year's most up, and he's been pesterin' me to come over.

Seth's been Orham town clerk about as long as I've been the Bayport one, and he's lived there all his life.
What he don't know about Orham folks ain't wuth knowin'.