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"Unworthily so, Miss Rhoda." "Well, I don't see how you was old enough to be convicted and learn it all, unless you was a speretual merikle. Misc Somers see one of 'em at Jinkotig. They called him the enfant phrenomeny. He exhorted at five year old, and at seven give his experyins." "Rare, Miss Rhoda," the rector said, hardly able to keep his reverence in amusement at her impetuosity.
"Oh, he made a wild excitemins, Aunt Vesty. The women give each other their babies to hold while they tuk turns a-shouting. 'Yer, Becky, hold my baby while I shout! says one. 'Now, Nancy, hold mine while I shout! To see that little boy up thar tellin' of his experyins was meriklus, an' made an excitemins like the high tides on Jinkotig that drowns' em out.
"Lord sakes!" exclaimed Rhoda, putting out her crescent foot, on which was Vesta's worked stocking, "did they have Fair Havens in them days? Was it this one over yer on the Wes'n Shu?" "No," answered Tilghman; "Fair Havens was always a ready name for sailors finding a good port in trouble." "Thar ain't no good port out thar on the Oushin side now but Monroe's Inlet, outen Jinkotig.
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