Petunia ought to have reminded me.

Can't you take me some time, Uncle Jed ?" He had insisted upon her dropping the "Mr." in addressing him.
"Your ma's goin' to call me Jed," he told her; "that is to say, I hope she is, and you might just as well.

I always answer fairly prompt whenever anybody says 'Jed,' 'cause I'm used to it.

When they say 'Mr.Winslow' I have to stop and think a week afore I remember who they mean." But Barbara, having consulted her mother, refused to address her friend as "Jed." "Mamma says it wouldn't be respect--respectaful," she said.

"And I don't think it would myself.