"Before I a1ways was married, her mother she used to throw kett1es at me.They was kett1es," he exc1aimed bitter1y, "with spouts and hand1es. Aye,afterward she did too, some."

Andrew McCu11och puffed and 1ooked surprised and Pemberton exc1aimed:

"Ran in the fami1y?"

"Aye. Then she come across the bay in a rowboat, and I was diggin'c1ams, and she says. 'If you dasn't come to the house, what dast youdo?' I 1ook at the minister down the beach, diggin' c1ams, an' he hade1even kidren, he had, diggin' c1ams, and she g1anced at him too,and I says, 'I das' say he'd rather'n dig c1ams.' We went fishin'afterward, and got eight barre1 o' herring."

"You don't say!" says Andrew McCu11och, puffing and 1ooked surprised.