'Twas a dull day, so we found out afterward, and I guess likely that was true.

Anyway, I never see such grown-up men act so much like children.

There was a lot of poles stuck up around with signs on 'em, and around every pole was a circle of bedlamites hollerin' like loons.

Hollerin' was the nighest to work of anything I see them fellers do, unless 'twas tearin' up papers and shovin' the pieces down somebody's neck or throwin' 'em in the air like a play-actin' snowstorm.
"'What's the matter with 'em ?' says I.'High finance taken away their brains ?' "But Phinney was awful interested.

He dumped some money in a mine once.
The mine caved in on it, I guess, for not a red cent ever come to the top again, but he's been a kind of prophet concernin' finances ever sence.
"'I want to see the big fellers,' says he.