He's takin' the plans now of Luman Heath's kitchen stove and riggin' up the machinery; Luman is to pay him lavishly, you know Luman's wife is my own cousin." I see how it wuz, Karen's friends, to please her, wuz willin' to offer up their sure comforts and solid foundations as a sacrifice on the altar of friendship and the thought come over me, mebby I'd ort to.

But it did seem as if I couldn't.
Sez Karen, "If it is a success at cousin Luman's, as it is dead sure to be, Jabez is goin' to take it to the St.Louis Exposition." "He thinks the foreign powers will want to treat with him for it.

But I told him I would ruther he would let our Government have it.

But 'tennyrate he won't let the Powers git the better of him in the contract and control it and enrich themselves at his expense.

He will get his onparelled idees patented before he takes it to St.Louis, it wouldn't be safe not to.