I sez to her coolly, that "it wuz only a difference of one letter,
and I never wuz much of a one to put the letter N above any of the
others, or to be haughty on havin' it added to, or diminished from
my name."

But she kep' on a goin' with him. She told me it wuz real
romanticle the way he got aquanted with her. He see her onbeknown
to her one day, when she wuz a writin' a poem on one of the
benches in the park.

"A Poem on a Bench!"

She wuz a settin' on the bench, and a writin' about it, she was a
writin' on the bench in two different ways. Curius, haint it?

But to resoom. He immegetly fell in love with her. And he got a
feller who wuz a boardin' to his boardin' place to interduce him
to Ardelia's relative, Mr. Pixley, and Mr. Pixley interduced him
to Ardelia. He told Ardelia's relatives the same story - That
his father wuz a banker, that he owned a bank and wuz doin' a
heavy business.

Wall, I watched that young chap, and watched him close, and I see
there wuz one thing about him that could be depended on, he wuz
truthful.

He seemed almost morbid on the subject, and would dispute himself
half a hour, to get a thing or a story he wuz tellin' jest exactly
right. But he drinked; that I know for I know the symptoms.
Coffee can't blind the eyes of her that waz once Smith, nor