And I guess I said I was going to be a minister right to-day before any of you said anything at all.

DIDN'T I, Herman?
YOU heard me, didn't you, Herman?
That's the very thing started you talking about it, wasn't it, Herman ?" "You' right," said Herman.

"You the firs' one to say it." Penrod, Sam, and Maurice immediately lost faith in Herman.
"What if you did say it first ?" Penrod shouted.

"You couldn't BE a minister if you were a hunderd years old!" "I bet his mother wouldn't let him be one," said Sam.

"She never lets him do anything." "She would, too," retorted Georgie.