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Updated: May 27, 2025
The Honorable Socrates Potter was the only "scientific man" in the village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped himself, for, while his ideas were highly modern, he clung to the dress and manners that prevailed in his youth.
People who hadn't slept for weeks found repose in the First Congregational Church an' Sanitarium of Pointview. They slept an' snored while the Reverend Hopkins wept an' roared. His rhetoric was better than bromide or sulphonal. In grateful recollection of their slumbers, they set him up in business. "Now I'm agoin' to talk as mean as I feel.
The whole enterprise had been a bluff conceived in the interest of the Warburtons. I hadn't really intended to build a house, but suddenly I got busy with all the mechanics I could hire in Pointview, and the house began to grow like a mushroom. "Another wonderful thing happened. Mrs. Warburton fell in love with the kids, and they with her.
It was like movin' a piano with somebody playin' on it, but we managed to seat him on the front floor o' the car, which took us all home. "So the affair ended without disgrace to any one, if not without violence, and no one knows of the cablegram save the few persons directly concerned. But the price of Alecks took a big slump in Pointview.
"Lizzie was on hand at the hour appointed. We sat down here all by ourselves. "'Lizzie, I says, 'why in the world did you go to Europe for a husband? It's a slight to Pointview a discouragement of home industry. "'There was nobody here that seemed to want me, she says, blushin' very sweet. "She had dropped her princess manner an' seemed to be ready for straight talk.
More'n half of 'em give up church an' went off on the country roads every Sunday. All along the pike from Pointview to Jerusalem Corners ye could see where they'd laid humbly on their backs in the dust, prayin' to a new god an' tryin' to soften his heart with oil or open the gates o' mercy with a monkey-wrench. "Bill came into my shop one day an' looked as if he hadn't a friend in the world.
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