a-b-i-j-a-h

Updated: May 14, 2025

Ezekiel Todd, her dry, tight-fisted, lean father, had named her, bawling it out so loud that the more suitable, certainly the more euphonious, "Evangeline," proffered in a timid whisper by her faded and somewhat romantic mother, was completely smothered. "I baptize thee, Evang " began the minister, when Ezekiel's voice rose clear: "Abijah, I tell ye, Parson A-b-i-j-a-h Abijah!" And Abijah it was.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Abijah's Bubble