Folks ort to be careful what names they put onto their children; yes, indeed.
Neny wuz a very beautiful, good-appearin' young girl, and acted as if she would have had good sense, and considerable of it, if she hadn't been afraid to say her soul wuz her own.
But Nony wuz cold and haughty.

He sot right by me on the north side, Josiah Allen sot on my south.

And I fairly felt chilly on that side sometimes, almost goose pimples, that young man child felt so cold and bitter towards the world and us, and so sort o' patronizin'.
[Illustration: He sot by me.] He didn't believe in religion, nor nothin'.

He didn't believe in Christopher Columbus--right there to the doin's held for him, he didn't believe in him.
"Why," sez I, "he discovered the land we live in." He said, "He was very doubtful whether that wuz so or not--histories made so many mistakes, he presoomed there never was such a man at all." "Why," sez I, "he walked the streets of Genoa." And he sez, "I never see him there." And, of course, I couldn't dispute that.
And he added, "That anyway there wuz too much a-bein' done for him.

He wuz made too much of." He didn't believe in wimmen, made a specialty of that, from Neny back to Rachael and Ruth.