CHAPTER I.
JOBE SETS AND STUDIES.
MISTUR EDITURE:—My name is Betsy Gaskins. I was born a Dimicrat. My father was a Dimicrat and my mother dident dare to be anything else—out loud.
Our family, thus, was of one mind, perlitically, until Jobe Gaskins begin to come to see me.
I was a young woman of nineteen summers, as the poit would say.
Jobe he was a Republican and “didn’t keer who knowed it.”
My folks opposed Jobe on perlitical grounds.
Jobe he opposed my folks on the same grounds, but hankered arter me, though he knode I was a “Dimicrat dide in the wool.”
And I must say I hankered arter Jobe, though I knode he was a rank Republican. On that one pint we agreed: we both hankered.