I felt that I must go, and so did he; it wuz only about five milds from here, in the Methodist Episcopal Meetin'-House up to Zoar.
Her father and mother wuz members in good standin'.

Lots of Jonesvillians went to the funeral; there hadn't been such a excitement in Zoar and Jonesville sence Seth Widrik murdered his wife's mother with a broad axe (and that wuz done through whiskey, so they say; it wuz done before my time).
The Meetin'-House in Zoar wuz crowded to its utmost capacity and the ceilin'.

And seats wuz sot in all the aisles, and the pulpit stairs wuz full of folks, and the door-steps, and the front yard wuz packed full.
We went early, and got a seat.
[Illustration: Wall, Josiah and me, we went to that funeral.] All the ministers of Zoar, and Jonesville, and Loontown, and Shackville wuz there, and of all the sermons that wuz preached--wall, it wuz a sight.

The tears jest run down most everybody's face, and when the mourners wuz addressed, why, big, hefty men all round me jest boohooed right out.

Why, it wuz enough to melt a stun.
Then the preacher depictered that little golden head that had made sunshine in her home through the darkest days, as bein' brung low by an asassin.