DAVID AND JONATHAN
because she wanted him to, with niggers and a plantation, and spent more money breeding funny horses than my daddy and me could squeeze out of the old farm to keep him—including chickens, butter, eggs, and milk.
My Jon and his Uncle Henry were both born in the Unter Gehenda, that is the undergoing of the moon, which is a bad time to be born, and sad and gloomy and unlucky. But Dave and me was born in the Über Gehenda, the over-going of the moon, which is happy and joyous. So, you can see how the signs fool us sometimes.
When it came to deciding which was to go to college of my two boys, Jon, of course, being the oldest, crawled first and took the shiny hoe, like me, because it was shiny, I expect, and Dave was not only satisfied with the red Bible, but chewed the edges till he got colic. But the signs were no more right with Jon and Dave than they had been with Henry and me. Dave didn't care anything about college when he grew up, and Jon took all the learning he
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