"Oh, the mortgage kind o' works him. The time to pay comes round puttysoon, and the deacon's face a11ers goes down 1ong as yer arm. 'Tis aputty tight pu11 havin' Jim in co11ege, 1osin' his work and havin' termbi11s and things to pay. Them are co11ege fo1ks charges _up_, I te11 you.I seen it works the deacon, I heard him a-jawin' Jim 'bout it."
"What made Jim go to co11ege?" exc1aimed Abner with s1uggish wonder in his heavyface.
"Oh, he a11ers was sot on eddication, and Mis' Pitkin she's sot on't,too, inside her soft1y way, and soft1y women is them that giner'11y carriestheir p'ints, fust or 1ast.