“The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a considerable
distance. When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but
girls hold their tongues till they are spoken to, and then they
answer respectable, and tell just how it was. A boy thinks himself
clever because he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry
land for every living thing, and rested on the seventh day. When the
boy grows up he is called a husband, and then he stops wading and
stays out at nights, but the grew up girl is a widow and keeps house.”