Why he got nearly rampant with excitement. And so did I, though
I wouldn't want it known by Tirzah Ann's husband's folks and
others in Jonesville. They call it "steeple chasin'" so if they
should hear on't, it wouldn't sound so very wicked any way. I
should probable tell 'em if they said too much, "That it wuz a
pity if folks couldn't get interested in a steeple and chase it
up." But between you and me I didn't see no sign of a steeple,
nor meetin' house nor nuthin'. I s'pose they gin it that name to
make it seem more righter to perfessors. I know it wuz a great
comfort to me. (But I don't think they chased a steeple, and
Josiah don't, for we think we should have seen it if they had.)

Wall, as I say, we wuz both dretfully interested, excited, and
wrought up, I s'pose I ort to say, when a chap accosted me and
says to me sunthin' about buyin' a pool. And I shook my head and
sez, "No, I don't want to buy no pool."

But he kep' on a talkin' and a urgin', and sez, "Won't you buy a
French pool, mom, you can make lots of money out of it."

"A pool," sez I in dignified axents, and some stern, for I wuz
weary with his importunities. "What do I want a pool for? Don't
you s'pose there's any pools in Jonesville, and I never thought
nothin' on 'em, I always preferred runnin' water. But if I wuz a
goin' to buy one, what under the sun do you s'pose I would buy
one way off here for, hundreds of miles from Jonesville?"

"I might possibly," sez I, not wantin' to hurt his feelin's and
tryin' to think of some use I could put it tot " might if you had
a good small American pool, that wuz a sellin' cheap; and I could