He talked cranb'ries steady for an hour and a half and I left that house with my mouth all puckered up; it's tasted sour ever sence.

I never see such a man!" When Captain Cy was questioned by Asaph concerning the acid conversation, he grinned.
"I didn't know you was so interested in cranb'ries," observed Tidditt.
"I ain't," was the reply; "but I'm more interested in 'em than I am in Angie.

I see she was sufferin' from a rush of curiosity to the head and I cured her by homeopath doses.

Every time she opened her mouth I dropped an 'early black' into it.

It's a good receipt; you tell Bailey to try it on Ketury some time." To his chums the captain was emphatic in his orders that secrecy be preserved.