CHAPTER XXII.
JONAS EXPRESSES HIS OPINION ON DUTCHMEN.
Sometimes the virus of a family is all drawn off in one vial.

I think it is Emerson who makes this remark.

We have all seen the vials.
Such an one was Norman Anderson.

The curious law of hereditary descent had somehow worked him only evil.

"Nater," observed Jonas to Cynthy, when the latter had announced to him that Norman, on account of some disgrace at school, had returned home, "nater ha'n't done him half jestice, I 'low.