Somehow, we don't seem to be able to confine ourselves to no three or four names for 'im, for so we thess decided to let it run along sohe thess goin' by the name o' "Sonny" tell sech a time ez

It was on account o' her takin' a interest in all his little beasts an' varmints thet he first took sech a notion to Miss Phoebe Kellog's school.

It did seem a redic'lous part o' speech the first time he mentioned sech a thing to his mother, but a boy o' twelve couldn't be expected to know the difference between a mountain an' a mole-hill.

They's a few other words I've always hoped to have a chance to spell in the reg'lar co'se of life, sech ez y-a-c-h-t, yacht, but I suppose, livin' in a little inland town, which a yacht is a boat, a person couldn't be expected to need sech a wordless'n he went travelin'.

Don't raise no sech our way.

You see, he had went to school mo' or less with all them fellers, an' he knowed thet they didn't, none o' 'em, know half ez much ez what he did,though, to tell the truth, he ain't never said sech a word, not even to her or me,an', seein' how easy they was bein' turned out, why, he thess reelized his own rightsan' demanded 'em then an' there.

both it an' vaccination ez the two ordeels to be gone thoo with some time, an' we'd speculate ez to whether vaccination would take or not, an' all sech ez that, an' then, ez I said, after he see what the vaccination was, why he was even mo' prejudyced agin' baptism 'n ever, an' we 'lowed to let it run on tell sech a time ez he'd decide what name he'd want to take an' what denomination he'd want to bestow it on him.

"My child shain't wear no sech.

But it 'pears dat Miss Libbie heared 'bout de gwineson on Mars Jeems's plantation, en she des 'lowed she could n' trus' herse'f wid no sech a man; dat he mought git so useter 'busin' his niggers dat he 'd 'mence ter 'buse his wife atter he got useter habbin' her roun' de house.

But blam'd ef 'ta'n't too bad fer sech as her to stay in sech a cabin!

An' he wur sech a gradely little chap, so peart an' lively, crowin' an' laughin' from morn till neet.

I told Cap'n Sam'l that hardtack an' sech like wouldn't never do fer yer weak stummick, an' he promised me faithful he'd send somebody tew the mainland every day fer milk.