She wouldn't have given him such a name if she had." "She named him after the town she came from," said Fanny.

"She told me once.

She's a real smart woman, and she makes that boy stand around." "She must; it looks as if he was standin' round pretty lively jest now," said Mrs.Zelotes.

"Namin' of a boy after a town! They'd better wait and name a town after the boy if he amounts to anything." "His mother told me he was goin' into the first grammar-school next year," said Fanny.
"I pity the teacher," said Mrs.Zelotes, and then she recoiled, for the boy made another dart from behind a lamp-post, crossed their path, and was off again.
"My land!" gasped Mrs.Zelotes, "you speak to him, Andrew." But Andrew laughed.

"Might as well speak to a whirlwind," said he.