middlin' tart, partly to hide my own feelin's, which wuz perfectly
rousted up, and partly from principle, and sez I, "Don't for
mercy's sake call it Beuler."

Josiah always will call it so. I've got a 4th cousin, Beulah Smith
(my own age and unmarried up to date), and he always did and would
call her Beuler. Truly in some things a pardner's influence and
encouragement fails to accomplish the ends aimed at.

Wall, it wuz after some words that I drew Josiah away from that
seen of enchantment - or he me, I don't exactly know which way it
wuz - and we wended onwards in our walk.

The hull broad streets wuz full of folks, full as they could be,
all on 'em perfect strangers to us and who knew what motives or
weapons they wuz a carryin' with 'em; but we knew we wuz safe,
Josiah and me did, for way up over all our heads, stood a big
straight soldier, a volunteer volunteerin, to see to the hull crew
on 'em below, a seein' that they behaved themselves. His age wuz
seventy-seven as near as I could make out but he didn't look
more'n half that. He had kep' his age remarkable.

Wall, it wuz, if I remember right, jest about now that we see a
glitterin' high up over our heads some writen in flame. I never
see such brilliant writin, before nor don't know as I ever shall
ag'in.

And Josiah stopped stun still, and stood a lookin' perfectly
dumfoundered at it. And finally he sez, "I'd give a dollar bill
if I could write like that."