Yez wouldn't think to look at her she was married in cotton--and mighty thankful to get married in anything, it's my opinion.

There's Timothy Patterson.

He's the meanest man alive--meaner'n Sam Kinnaird even.

Timothy pays his children five cents apiece to go without their suppers, and then steals the cents out of their pockets after they've gone to bed.

It's a fact.
And when his old father died he wouldn't let his wife put his best shirt on him.