I should scarcely have known you.

You are older--yes, much older." "Well, forty year more or less, added to what you started with, is apt to make a feller some older.

Don't need any Normal School graduate to do that sum for us.

I'm within seven or eight year of bein' as old as you are, Heman, and that's too antique to be sold for veal." Mr.Atkins changed the subject.
"I had heard of your return, Cyrus," he said.

"It gave me much pleasure to learn that you were rebuilding and--er--renovating the--er--the ancestral--er--" "The old home nest?
Yup, I'm puttin' back a few feathers.