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`` Well , '' continued Mr. Tidditt , with a glare at Bangs , `` I asked Seth about the Thayers and the Richards folks the very fust night I struck Orham . He remembered 'em , of course ; he can remember Adam , if you let him tell it . He told me a whole mess about old man Thayer and old man Richards and their granddads and grandmarms , and what houses they lived in , and how many hens they kept , and what their dog 's name was , and how they come to name him that , and enough more to fill a hogshead . 'T was ten o'clock afore he got out of Genesis , and down so fur as John and Emily . He remembered their bein ' married , and their baby -- Mary Thayer , Bos 'n' s ma -- bein ' born . `` Folks used to call John Thayer a smart young feller , so Seth said . They used to cal ` late that he 'd rise high in the seafarin ' and ship-ownin ' line .