He knows best," responded Reuben.
"Well, I used to think that way befo' I'd looked into the matter," rejoined the other, "but the deeper I get, the less reason I see to be sartain sure.

'Tis the fashion for parsons, an' for some people outside of the pulpit, to jump to conclusions, an' the one they've jumped the farthest to get at, is that things are all as they ought to be.

If you ain't possessed of the gift of logic it takes with you, but if you are possessed of it, it don't.

Now, I tell you that if a farmer was to try to run his farm on the wasteful scale on which this world is conducted, thar wouldn't be one among us as would trust him with next season's crops.

'Tis sech a terrible waste that it makes a frugal mind sick to see it." "Let's be thankful that it isn't any worse.