She could not bear to think of another birthday, now that he had been taken from her.
Her guardian pulled his beard.

"Well," he observed ruefully, "then my weak head's put my foot in it again, as the feller said.

If I ain't careful I'll be like poor cracked Philander Baker, who lives with his sister over at Denboro Centre.

The doctor told Philander he was threatened with softenin' of the brain, and the sister thanked him for the compliment.

You see, Caroline, I wrote on my own hook and asked Stevie to come home Saturday and stay till Monday.