I don't say as how he knew the difference between a stoat and a weasel--he didn't.

A cock-pheasant and a hen-partridge would have been the same to him.

But the spirit of it--the meaning of it--he fair raised my hair off--he knew it a darned sight better nor I.And that's what I set out for to say, sonny.

He had po'try in him.

And all this"-- he swept an all-inclusive hand--"all this meant to him something that you and I can't tumble to, sonny.