"Hain't you got no respect fer the holy institution of matrimuny ?--and--at cet'ry ?" he added, wiping his whole face with his napkin.
"Much as you hev, I reckon," she retorted.

"Of all the amazin' things in this world, the amazinist to me is the kind of people that gits married to each other in gen'ral; but this here performence beats ev'rything holler." "Amri give a very good reason for't," said David with an air of conviction, and then he broke into a laugh.
"Ef you got anythin' to tell, tell it," said Mrs.Bixbee impatiently.
"Wa'al," said David, taking the last of his pudding into his mouth, "if you insist on't, painful as 't is.

I heard Dick Larrabee tellin' 'bout it.

Amri told Dick day before yestiday that he was thinkin' of gettin' married, an' ast him to go along with him to Parson White's an' be a witniss, an' I reckon a kind of moral support.

When it comes to moral supportin'," remarked David in passing, "Dick's as good 's a professional, an' he'd go an' see his gran'mother hung sooner 'n miss anythin', an' never let his cigar go out durin' the performence.