Why, when I can't remember a thing myself, I always--" "Ah, please go on!" "Now how can she when you keep fussing at her all the time ?" said Aunt Betsy.

"Why, with a person pecking at me that way, I should get that fuzzled and fuddled that--" She was on her feet again, but Allen coaxed her into her seat once more, while the court squelched the mirth of the house.

Then the judge said: "Madam, do you know--do you absolutely know, independently of anything these gentlemen have told you--that the power over their legs passes from the one to the other regularly every week ?" "Regularly?
Bless your heart, regularly ain't any name for the exactness of it! All the big cities in Europe used to set the clocks by it." (Laughter, suppressed by the court.) "How do you know?
That is the question.

Please answer it plainly and squarely." "Don't you talk to me like that, Sim Robinson--I won't have it.

How do I know, indeed! How do YOU know what you know?
Because somebody told you.
You didn't invent it out of your own head, did you?
Why, these twins are the truthfulest people in the world; and I don't think it becomes you to sit up there and throw slurs at them when they haven't been doing anything to you.