He wa'n't satisfied to git the best piece an' the biggist piece--he hated to hev any one else git anythin' at all.

I don't believe he ever laughed in his life, except over some kind o' suff'rin'-- man or beast--an' what'd tickle him the most was to be the means on't.

He took pertic'ler delight in abusin' an' tormentin' Dave, an' the poor little critter was jest as 'fraid as death of him, an' good reason.

Father was awful hard, but he didn't go out of his way; but 'Lish never let no chance slip.

Wa'al, I ain't goin' to give you the hull fam'ly hist'ry, an' I've got to go into the kitchen fer a while 'fore dinner, but what I started out fer 's this: 'Lish fin'ly settled over to Whitcom." "Did he ever git married ?" interrupted Mrs.Cullom.
"Oh, yes," replied Mrs.Bixbee, "he got married when he was past forty.
It's curious," she remarked, in passing, "but it don't seem as if the' was ever yit a man so mean but he c'd find some woman was fool enough to marry him, an' she was a putty decent sort of a woman too, f'm all accounts, an' good lookin'.