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And he was straightway convinced, wholly and completely, that he had found it in Eos. To him Spalton was the one and undoubted prophet of God, the high priest of Truth. Gabby Jack was a "j'iner." From his huge, ornate, gold watch-chain hung three or four bejewelled insignia of secret societies that he was a member of.
She got acquainted with him then, and after a year or so they were promised. Eben was a good fellow, a j'iner by trade. He lived in the village. In the fall before they would have been married, in the spring, he had typhoid fever, and they sent for Samanthy. She went and took care of him three weeks, and then he died. She came home, and seemed like one in a maze.
I'll want good plain print: Solomon Rollin, Cappenter 'n J'iner, Hillsborough, NY soun's putty good don't it. 'Beautiful, I answered. 'I'll git a big lot on 'em, he said.
They was livin' down near Healey's slough in wan iv thim ol' Doherty's houses, not Doherty that ye know, th' j'iner, a good man whin he don't dhrink. No, 'twas an ol' grouch iv a man be th' name iv Malachi Doherty that used to keep five-day notices in his thrunk, an' ownded his own privit justice iv th' peace.
An' that same Tuesday mornin', Josh had a j'iner come an' begin a partition right straight through the house. It was all rough boards, like a high fence, an' it cut the front entry in two, an' went right through the kitchen so't the kitchen stove was one side on't, an' the sink the other. Lyddy Ann's side had the stove.
Yes, sah, I'm a christian, an' I don't want no one, incloodin' mysc'f, to go forgettin' it. "This yere news don't weigh on me partic'lar, an' I makes no comments. It's three weeks later when Tom cuts loose another commoonication. "'You rec'llects, he says, 'about me bein' a j'iner an' hookin' up wid d' Presbyter'ans?