Besides anything very large it would be small, but beside anything very small it would be large.' "I nodded my head to her, to let her see I knew what she was tryin' to say.

'Medium large,' I says, 'yes, I know just about how big you mean, but what I'd like to know is, is it heavy ?' "'Medium,' she says, 'just medium heavy.' "Well, there she was! A medium heavy, medium-sized box.

If it had been a little bit of a light-weight box I'd 'a' told her to open it and keep it, for there couldn't have been much in it; and if it had been a big heavy box I'd have told her she'd better leave it alone; for there wouldn't be any tellin' whether she had any right to open a box like that one might have turned out to be.

I didn't know how the law stood on that kind of a box.

But it was medium-sized, and I didn't know WHAT to say.
"'Miss Sally,' I says, 'I'd like to help you out on this.