And to think I should run across Sammy Mills after all these years." "Hewlitt," said Eliph'.

"Eliph' Hewlitt is that name I'm known by." "And to think you stuck by that name all these years!" said Wilkins.
"And still sellin' works of literatoor, are you?
Pap, this is my old boyhood's chum come meanderin' backwards out of the past.

And still sellin' books! Well, I don't want to discourage your ambitiousness, but I guess you've struck Kilo about the worst time in the century.

Ever hear of a literary writer called Sir Walter Scott?
Well, sir, Kilo is chuck full of Sir Walter; full as a goat.

She ain't begun to near git through with Sir Walter yet, and I don't figger she'll take in no more libraries just now.