Miss Lenora, with all her badness, says it's disgraceful, but he might ha' know'd it.

_I_ did.

I know'd it the fust time she came here a nussin'.

I don't see what got into him to have her.

Polly Pepper, without any larnin', never would ha' done such a thing," continued she, as the door closed upon her visitor, who was anxious to carry the gossip back to the village.
It was even as Aunt Polly had said.