The rest on 'em, I see, and it wuz real good in 'em, drinked
through 'em, as we used to at school. It wuz real good in
Druzilla, and Ezra, and also in the Deacon. It kinder ondeared
the hull on 'em to me. I hope this won't be told of, it orto be
kep -- for he wuz a goodnatured lookin' hired man, black, but not
to blame for that -- and good land! what is a straw? -- anyway
they wuz clean.

There wuz some tents sot up there in the back yard, lookin' some
as I s'pose our old 4 fathers tents did, in the pleasant summer
times of old. And I asked a bystander a standin' by, whose tents
they wuz, and he said they wuz Free Thinkers havin' a convention.

And I says, "How free?"

And he said "they wuz great cases to doubt everything, they
doubted whether they wuz or not, and if they wuz or when, and if
so, why?"

And he says, "won't you stay to-night over and attend the meetin'?"

And I says, "What are they goin' to teach tonight?"

And he says, "The Whyness of the What"

I says, "I guess that is too deep a subject for me to tackle," and
says I, "Don't they believe anything easier than that?"

And he says, "They don't believe anything. That is their belief
-- to believe nothin'."