This will be the first time that anybody ever took possession of a pole, and you ought to look your very best.

I would ask you to shave, because you would look better that way, but I suppose if you took off your beard you would take cold in your jaws.

And I want you to stand up straight, and talk as long about it as you can.

You are too much given to cuttin' off ceremonies mighty short, as I remember was the case when you were statin' your 'pinions about our weddin'; but I had my way then, and I want to have it now.

You are goin' to be a big man, Sammy, and your name will go all over the world, so you must screw yourself up to as much eminence as you think you can stand." Sammy laughed.