It's really no easier sliding down than it is climbing back." Well, I seen this nigger scheme of our'n wasn't the only thing that was troubling Doctor Kirby that night.

It was thinking of all the schemes like it in the years past he had went into, and how he had went into 'em light-hearted and more'n half fur fun when he was a young man, and now he wasn't fitten fur nothing else but them kind of schemes, and he knowed it.

He was seeing himself how he had been changing, like another person could of seen it.

That's the main trouble with drinking to fergit yourself.

You fergit the wrong part of yourself.
I left him purty soon, and went along to bed.