Yes, sir." "They knowed _him_ all right," added another.

"I reckon all of us did, little and big." "It's goin' to seem mighty empty around here," said Ross Schofield.
"What's goin' to become o' the 'Herald' and the party in this district?
Where's the man to run either of 'em now.

Like as not," he concluded desperately, "the election'll go against us in the fall." Dibb Zane choked over his four fingers.

"We might's well bust up this dab-dusted ole town ef he's gone." "I don't know what's come over that Cynthy Tipworthy," said the landlord.

"She's waited table on him last two year, and her brother Bud works at the 'Herald' office.