She warn't overly smart.

She hadn't hardly got the sense the law allows.

But schools was skase in them air days, and, besides, book-larnin' don't do no good to a woman.

Makes her stuck up.

I never knowed but one gal in my life as had ciphered into fractions, and she was so dog-on stuck up that she turned up her nose one night at a apple-peelin' bekase I tuck a sheet off the bed to splice out the table-cloth, which was rather short.