'I think, Jacob, you owe me four cents on that cow you bought last fall.

Rec'llect you couldn't make the change ?' Well, you know, 'twould a-made a cat laugh.

The Kinnairds were all mighty close, I can tell you.

That's how they got rich." What Sam Kinnaird felt or thought during this speech, which everyone in the church must have heard, I know not.

Gossip had it that he changed colour.