father's brother's wife's aunt. It wuz her father's request that
she should get her board there on account of its bein' in the
family. He loved "to see relations hang together;" so he said,
and "get their boards of each other." But I thought then, and I
think now, that it wuz because they asked less for the board.
Deacon Tutt is close. But howsumever Ardelia went there, and my
companion and me arrove at the abode where we wuz to abide, with
no eppisode only the triflin' one of the driver bein' dretful
mistook as to the price he asked to take us there.

I thought, and Josiah thought, that 50 cents wuz the outlay of
expendatur he required to carry us where we would be; it wuz but a
short distance. But no! He said that 5 dollars wuz what he said,
that is, if we heard anything about a 5. But he thought we wuz
deef, and dident hear him. He thought he spoke plain, and said 4
dollars for the trip.

And on that price he sot down immovible. They arged, and Josiah
Allen even went so far as to use language that grated on my nerve,
it wuz so voyalent and vergin' on the profane. But there the man
sot, right onto that price, and he had to me the appeerance of one
who wuz goin' to sot there on it all night. And so rather than to
spend the night out doors, in conversation with him, he a settin'
on that price, and Josiah a shakin' his fist at it, and a jawin'
at it, I told Josiah that he had better pay it. And finally he
did, with groanin's that could hardly be uttered.

Wall, after supper (a good supper and enough on't), Josiah proposed
that we should take a short walk, we two alone, for Ardelia wuz
afar from us, most to the other end of the village, either asleep