Whilst Evalener lives in Belleville, we call her one of our own flock, fer she taughten the last term of skoole here in Pine Ridge and had a heap better cuntrol over the scholars than arry perfesser we've had fer years. They was some that was a leetle joobus bout a woman thataway being stout nuff to make the biggestuns toe the mark but agin she'd been ther a month, she had the onruliest ones in the bunch as docile as old cows. She went at it right square backards from the usual run of perfessors. Stid of snatchin em up and whalin the daylights outen em, she would talk kind to em and pint out where they had the wrong slant on things. Yessir they's times when words'll cut a heap deeper than a hickory limb. She peers to know jist what to say or do at the right time to git along with the parrents of the scholars. Whilst she's got more book larnin than's good fer a woman to have in her head, she aint the least bit uppish in her ways like some thats had a smart deal of eddication thataway. She's takend right a holdt in the sosyiety doins of the cammunity. Hit dont make no differnce wher hits a box social, literary or singin bee, you can find her right smack in the middle of things jist like she had growed up with us.

They's some that claims that Evalener uses artyfishal flavorin and cullorin to make herself look and smell so good but, be that as it may, she's bout as restful to the eye as any woman you'd want to see. We aint had a bit of truble gittin the members of the skolle board to turn out to direcktors meetins since she takend over the teachin and the way they have took to dykin therseves out fer the ocazion is a caution. Hit peers to be sorter natchural fer abody to throw his eyes over hisef to be shore he's lookin his best when Evalener is around. Hits dreadful singlar somebody aint changed her name fer her but chances are hits on account of her bein so delykate. She couldn't stand up to no field work and about all she'd be fittin fer would be to look after the cookin and warshin and maybe take keer of the stock on the place.

Hit all jist goes to show that if abody looks closet a nuff he can find good pints bout most anybody reegardless of their shortcomins.

-From "Lum and Abner and Their Friends from Pine Ridge, By Themselves"