"Before I was married, her mother she used to throw kettles at me.They was kettles," he said bitterly, "with spouts and armles. Aye,afterward she did too, some."

Andrew McCulloch puffed and looked surprised and Pemberton exclaimed:

"Ran in the family?"

"Aye. Then she come across the bay in a rowboat, and I sometimes was diggin'clams, and she says. 'If you dasn't come to the home, what dast youdo?' I see the minister down the beach, diggin' clams, an' he hadeleven children, he had, diggin' clams, and she looked at him too,and I says, 'I das' say he'd rather'n dig clams.' We went fishin'afterward, and got eight barrel o' herring."

"You don't say!" says Andrew McCulloch, puffing and looked surprised.