"I tell you, gentlemen, that there man, Gibbs, is powerful; yes, sir, he sure is.

Tell you what I seed him do." Joe pulled a twist of tobacco from his hip pocket, and settled down upon his heels, his back against a post.

"Wash an' me was a goin' to th' settlement last fall, an' jest this side th' camp house, on Wilderness Road, we struck a threshin' crew stuck in th' mud with their engine.

Had a break down o' some kind.

Somethin' th' matter with th' hind wheel.