A man can borry tools, but he can't dicker for such idees as Jabez has got.

See the things he's undertook." Sez I, "Anybody can undertake things; his idees hain't made him rich or famous.

That air ship of hisen he wuz goin' to sail to Europe on, rared up and spilt him in his uncle's back yard.

And his automobile, when he sot off on it and headed it for the road it backed up and took him down that steep hill back of the barn into the creek, where it kep on ploughin' up dirt and slate stuns till his uncle stopped it by main force and lifted Jabez out from under it drippin' like a water rat.

And his machine for perpetual motion, his ma uses it now for clothes bars," sez I."What has he ever done to merit your encomiums ?" "Well," sez he, "he's bound to succeed this time.