"I brought 'em here because I thought they might give an idee where my wife was.

For them letters is in her own handwrite.

You remember ez I told ez how she was a scollard." The master sat back in his chair white and dumb.

Incredible, extraordinary, and utterly unlooked for as was this revelation, he felt instinctively that it was true.
"I couldn't read it myself--ez you know.

I didn't keer to ax any one else to read it for me--you kin reckon why, too.