'Course, most always it doesn't, and a good deal of the time, when he says things, why, I have to feel glad we haven't got company, because they'd think he didn't have any gumption at all.

Yet, look at the way he did when Jim--when Jim got hurt.

He took right hold o' things.

'Course he'd been sick himself so much and all--and the rest of us never had, much, and we were kind o' green about what to do in that kind o' trouble--still, he did take hold, and everything went off all right; you'll have to say that much, papa.

And Dr.Gurney says he's got brains, and you can't deny but what the doctor's right considerable of a man.