THE TIM BUNKEll PAPERS. 



NO. 64. TIM BUNKER ON THE FARMER S OLD 



AGE. 



&quot; Sallie Bunker Slocum is the baby s name,&quot; said Mrs. 

 Bunker, as she took off her spectacles and laid down the 

 letter from Shadtown, which I had just brought in from 

 the Post-Office. 



&quot; I like the name well enough, except the spelling of 

 it,&quot; she continued. &quot; Sally was my mother s name, it is 

 my name, and my daughter s, and if they wanted to keep 

 up the name in the family, I don t see why they didn t 

 spell it in the old way. If I set out to do a thing I would 

 do it right.&quot; 



&quot; I suppose it is a little more genteel,&quot; I replied. &quot;That 

 is the way they spell it among the aristocratic families of 

 the South.&quot; 



&quot; That is just what I don t like,&quot; said she. &quot;It is a 

 miserable affectation of women who read novels more than 

 they do their Bibles. We have no aristocracy up here, 

 and judging from what I saw when I was down South, I 

 never want to see any. Isn t this wretched war carried 

 on to bolster up an aristocracy, and that a few families 

 may live in idleness at the expense of the poor? I don t 

 want to see any aristocratic trumpery on my grandchil 

 dren. Sallie won t look well on a grave stone.&quot; 



&quot; What does Sally write about it ? &quot; I asked. 



&quot; Not a word about the spelling. She seems to think it 

 is all the same. She writes : We carried the baby out 

 to meeting for the first time last Sabbath, and it was bap 

 tized Sallie Bunker. We never thought of calling her 

 any thing else, out of regard to you and grandmother, 

 though we did not tell you at the time you were here, lest 

 you should be too much puffed up with your honors. She 



