One must be merely a keen observer." He shook his head doubtfully.

"I see everything that goes on around me," he returned.

"Most of the time I can tell pretty near what sort a man is by lookin' at his face and watching the way he moves.

But I reckon I'd never make a writer.

Times when I look at this country--at a nice sunset, for instance, or think what a big place this country is--I feel like sayin' somethin' about it; somethin' inside of me seems kind of breathless-like--kind of scarin' me.