He'd a bin splendid to bury out yer with the others.

Lemme tell you how it is: The best thing to make grape-vines grow is dogs; bury 'em right down among the roots.

Some people prefer grandmothers and their other relations.

But gimme dogs and cats.

Soon as I seen them vines of yourn I said to myself, Them vines wants a few dogs, and I concluded to put in the first day rakin' in all I could find.