Delia, she was shy about not havin' much education-Mis' Proudfit hed wanted to send her off to school, an' Mis' Crapwell wouldn't hear to it-an' Abel kep' talkin' that he was goin' to hev a big church in the City some day, an' I guess that scairt Delia some, an' Jennie kep' frettin' an' houndin' her, one way an' another, an' a-callin' her 'parson's wife'-ain't it awful the power them pin-Pricky things has if we let 'em?
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale