I was about as old as Doc, and we wasn't either of us very chickenish, but I thought Doc was the finest man I'd ever saw, an' exceptin' what I'm tellin' you, I ain't ever had cause to change my mind.
"I'd never sa so many books as Doc brought--more'n we've got now.

I burned a lot when we got married--Tom Paine and Bob Ingersoll, and all I wasn't sure was orthodoxy.

Why, we had more books than we've got in the Kilo Sunday School Lib'ry.

'Specially Shakespeare books, some Shakespeare writ hisself, an' some that was writ about him.

Doc was real took up with Shakespeare them days.
"'Most all his spare time Doc put in readin' them Shakespeare books, and sometime he'd git a new one.