You're a good inch taller'n what I am, and you'd be a bigger man than what I am if you'd get some flesh on your bones; and you ARE gettin' a little.
Physically, it's started you out to be the huskiest one o' the whole family.

Now, then, mentally--that's different.

I don't say it unkindly, Bibbs, but you got to do something for yourself mentally, just like what's begun physically.

And I'm goin' to help you." Sheridan decided to sit down again.

He brought his chair close to his son's, and, leaning over, tapped Bibbs's knee confidentially.