I've looked over the ground; I've been studying it for twenty years.

You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it.

When you want to place anything," continued the Colonel, confidently, "just let Beriah Sellers know.

That's all." "Oh, I haven't got much in ready money I can lay my hands on now, but if a fellow could do anything with fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, as a beginning, I shall draw for that when I see the right opening." "Well, that's something, that's something, fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, say twenty--as an advance," said the Colonel reflectively, as if turning over his mind for a project that could be entered on with such a trifling sum.
"I'll tell you what it is--but only to you Mr.Brierly, only to you, mind; I've got a little project that I've been keeping.

It looks small, looks small on paper, but it's got a big future.