His idees are some like the hardware man's at Jonesville only Jabez'es are more deep and not nigh so expensive." I never liked Jabez Wind and shouldn't if I'd seen him settin' swingin' his legs off the very top of Fame's pillow.

He wuz oncongenial to me, made so from the beginin'.

I never knew any particular hurt of him, but he seemed so much like his own sir name, so puffed up and onsubstantial.

He wuz middlin' well off to start with, or his ma wuz, but he had used up all her property in his different enterprises.
Now I dote on inventors, they wear a halo in my partial eyes.

They're the greatest men of our day, and I mentally kneel at their feet, but gold always has counterfeits.