"I often noticed you makin' a special effort to teach puddin' heads like me somethin', an' I always thank you for it.

There's a world in right teachin'.

I never had any.

So all I can pick up an' hammer into mine is a gain for me an' them.

If my Henry had lived, an' come out anything like that boy o' yourn an' the show he made last Sunday, I'd do well if I didn't swell up an' bust with pride.