Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families, an' he's come back to the Forks with jist a hell's-mint o' whoop-jamboree notions, folks says.
He's tuck an' fixed up the ole house like they does in Kaintuck, he say, an' tha's ben folks come cler from Turpentine for to see it.

He's tuck an gawmed it all over on the inside with plarsterin'." "What's plasterin' ?" "I dono.

Hit's what he calls it.

'Ole Mam Higgins, she tole me.
She say she wasn't gwyne to hang out in no sich a dern hole like a hog.
Says it's mud, or some sich kind o' nastiness that sticks on n' covers up everything.

Plarsterin', Si calls it." This marvel was discussed at considerable length; and almost with animation.