And you want to water it with your tears." "Why, I got plenty spring water, Mars Tom." "You don't WANT spring water; you want to water it with your tears.

It's the way they always do." "Why, Mars Tom, I lay I kin raise one er dem mullen-stalks twyste wid spring water whiles another man's a START'N one wid tears." "That ain't the idea.

You GOT to do it with tears." "She'll die on my han's, Mars Tom, she sholy will; kase I doan' skasely ever cry." So Tom was stumped.

But he studied it over, and then said Jim would have to worry along the best he could with an onion.

He promised he would go to the nigger cabins and drop one, private, in Jim's coffee-pot, in the morning.