I arrived at last with the sealskin and the hat, proving her correct, and they cheered her as well as myself.
Our little village had its share of eccentric characters, as the old man who was impelled by the edict of the Bible to cut off his right hand as it had "offended him." But lacking surgical facilities, the effort left one hand hanging limp and useless.

His long white beard, how truly patriarchal! Poor insane Sally Duget--a sad story! Her epitaph in our cemetery is pathetic.

With all her woe she was quick at repartee.

A man once asked her, "Shall you ever marry, Sally ?" "Well, yes, if you and I can make a bargain." Elder Bawker with his difficulties in locomotion.
Rogers, who carried the students' washing home to his wife on Sunday afternoons for a preliminary soak.

The minister seeing him thus engaged, stopped him, and inquired: "Where do you think you will go to if you so constantly desecrate the Holy Sabbath ?" "Guess I'll go right on doing laundry work for the boys." The aged janitor who, in a brief scare about smallpox, was asked if he had ever had it: "No, but I've had chances." An old sinner who, being converted, used to serve as a lay evangelist at the district schoolhouse where in winter religious meetings were held.