Nobody can help liking the creature, he means so well--but I do dread to come across him again; he's bound to set us all crazy, of coarse.

Well, there goes old widow Hopkins--it always takes her a week to buy a spool of thread and trade a hank of yarn.

Maybe Si can come with the letter, now." And he did: "Widow Hopkins kept me--I haven't any patience with such tedious people.
Now listen, Nancy--just listen at this: "'Come right along to Missouri! Don't wait and worry about a good price but sell out for whatever you can get, and come along, or you might be too late.

Throw away your traps, if necessary, and come empty-handed.

You'll never regret it.