Mother tells a story about Grandpa Arington

[This conversation occurred on April 28th as I was driving to work. I am just adding it now.]

"Grandpa was funny. Mama was funny too, sometimes."
I had asked her about Grandpa Arington.
"Grandpa changed the spelling of his name," Mother continued. She was about to illustrate her point, though I didn't know it yet. "He changed it from "Arrington" to "Arington" with one "r"," she said. "He was a schoolteacher. Taught English. He said that words shouldn’t have extra letters." She laughed at his taking the second r out of his name. "Makes you wonder what kind of English he taught!"
We laughed.
"He made sure Mother got educated. He used to ride her and her sister to school on his horse when it snowed. Mother wanted us to get all of the education we could, too. That’s why she got so upset when June got married after 8th grade."
She thought for a while.
"James E. Arington," she said. "That was his name."

John, Saturday, July 3, 2010.