"That's ma's cousin, Rebecca, and her man, took th' day they was married.
Him and her quarreled somethin' awful, she gener'ly havin' th' upper hand.
I was named after her."

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"That there's Peletiah Parrett, a friend of pa's since they was boys.
He's a singin' school teacher and he's been to our house lots of times,
but he lives at Ohio. He kin sing awful good. You'd jist ort t' hear him
sing--well, I fergit what th' name of th' piece is but it goes like this:

"'Three dretful groans he heered
And then her ghost appeared
From head t' foot besmeared
Weth purple gore.'"

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"Pa's cousin Stella, dressed up in some of her ma's old clothes fer a
mask ball. Pa drawed in that streak and that printin'. He's a reg'lar
artist and he ain't never had a lesson in his life, neither.

"He calls this pitchure 'Stella as Ajax defyin' th' lightnin'!'"

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"Here's Deacon Samuel Phillips. He married ma's greatuncle Myron's widow,
but I don't know what relation that makes him t' us. He's an awful good
man, but clost. Pa says onct he got an awful jolt t' Chicago, where him
and some other men went t' sell their stock. It seems that after they got