[38] JENNY LAWRENCE Widow Bedott and Elder Sniffles seem to be suffering a disagreement. From The Widow Bedott Papers (New York, 1856). rized this attitude. Aunt Maguire's son Jefferson wrote to a cousin about Aunt Silly, as he called her, describing the widow's reaction to his suggestion that she attend a Baptist meeting. 'Well, Aunty, Where do you go to meeting today? ... I thought perhaps you'd like to hear Elder Sniffles, he's such an interesting preacher!' "What!" said she, "me go to the Baptist meetin! I hope you ain't in arnest, Jeff; why I'd as soon go to the theater as go there. I have a sufferin contempt for the Baptists. They think nobody can't git to heaven without bein' dipped, dippin's a savin' audience with them. Why, come to think, I remember that Elder Sniffles. When I was here afore, yer mother and me was in to Mr. Hugle's one evenin'—they're Bapists ain't they? and Elder Sniffles and his wife come in there to call. If my memory serves me, he's ruther a tall, scrawny man, with eyes that looks like a couple o' peeled onions, and kind o' squintin tew, and seems to me he had n't no hair hardly"