But she married, and at once settled down and became in all ways a model matron and was as highly respected as any matron in the town.

Four years ago she was still living, and had been married fifty years.
Jimmie McDaniel was another schoolmate.

His age and mine about tallied.
His father kept the candy-shop and he was the most envied little chap in the town--after Tom Blankenship ("Huck Finn")--for although we never saw him eating candy, we supposed that it was, nevertheless, his ordinary diet.

He pretended that he never ate it, and didn't care for it because there was nothing forbidden about it--there was plenty of it and he could have as much of it as he wanted.

He was the first human being to whom I ever told a humorous story, so far as I can remember.