After nine hours of listening to the vagaries of Old Sarum’s inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court on grounds of frivolous pleading and declared he hoped to God the litigants were satisfied by each having had his public say. During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham occasionally on deeds and things but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, and she was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front porch. The Cunninghams and the Coninghams married each other until the spelling of the names was academic-academic unless a Cunningham wished to jape with a Coningham over land titles and took to the law. '… there was a community called Old Sarum populated by two families, separate and apart in the beginning, but unfortunately bearing the same name. The same applies when it comes to the characters of Cunninghams and Coninghams in the community of Old Sarum, described here in chapter four of Go Set a Watchman: Author: Critics have rushed to review Go Set a Watchman, now thought to be an early first draft of the American literary classic
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