And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die.

Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me.
I had heard about some of these things before, but not all of them.

Jim knowed all kinds of signs.

He said he knowed most everything.

I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn't any good-luck signs.