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Abijah's Bubble, by F. Hopkinson Smith
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Title: Abijah's Bubble 1909
Author: F. Hopkinson Smith
Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23699]
Language: English
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ABIJAH'S BUBBLE
By F. Hopkinson Smith
1909
Ezekiel Todd, her dry, tight-fisted, lean father, had named her, bawling it out so loud that the more suitable, certainly the more euphonious, "Evangeline," proffered in a timid whisper by her faded and somewhat romantic mother, was completely smothered.
"I baptize thee, Evang--" began the minister, when Ezekiel's voice rose clear:
"Abijah, I tell ye, Parson--A-b-i-j-a-h--Abijah!" And Abijah it was.
The women were furious.
"Jes' like Zeke Todd. He's too ornery to live. I come mighty near speakin' right out, and hadn't been that Martha held on to me I would. Call her Abbie, for short, Mrs. Todd," exclaimed Deacon Libby's wife, "and shame him."
Abbie never minded it. She was too little to remember, she always said, and there were few people in the village of Taylorsville present at the christening who did.
Old Si Spavey, however, never forgot. "You kin call yourself Abbie if you choose," he used to say, "and 'tain't none o' my business, but I was in the meet