I suppose my father could have been a good man even if he had been called Jedediah; but I'm sure it would have been a cross.

Well, my mother was a teacher in the High school, too, but when she married father she gave up teaching, of course.

A husband was enough responsibility.

Mrs.Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice.

They went to live in a weeny-teeny little yellow house in Bolingbroke.