They believed I did it, and the result was just what any man of reflection could have foreseen: I had to order a hundred and ten whistles--I think we had a hundred and ten children in the house then, but some of them are off at college now--I had to order a hundred and ten of those shrieking things, and I wish I may never speak another word if we didn't have to talk on our fingers entirely, from that time forth until the children got tired of the whistles.

And if ever another man gives a whistle to a child of mine and I get my hands on him, I will hang him higher than Haman! That is the word with the bark on it! Shade of Nephi! You don't know anything about married life.

I am rich, and everybody knows it.

I am benevolent, and everybody takes advantage of it.

I have a strong fatherly instinct and all the foundlings are foisted on me.
"Every time a woman wants to do well by her darling, she puzzles her brain to cipher out some scheme for getting it into my hands.