But what do these idiots around this town know about such things?
Let 'em laugh.

I can stand a tail that saves me a couple of bushels of oats a year.

I'll bet you anything that there's millions and millions of dollars wasted--just thrown away--in this country every year furnishing nutriment to tails that are of no earthly use to the horses after they're nourished.

You can depend on that.

I've examined the government statistics, and they're enough to make a man cry to see how wasteful the American people are.
"And when you talk about his ribs showing so plainly through his sides, you prove that you have a very singular want of taste.