"That crittur has got more prances and capers in her than any three-year-old filly I knows on.

He'll be cunning that ever gets a bridle on her." "Some says she's going to hev Jim Pitkin, and some says it's Bill," said Abner, delighted to be able to add his mite of gossip to the stream while it was flowing.
"She's sweet on Jim while he's round, and she's sweet on Bill when Jim's up to college, and between um she gets took round to everything that going.

She gives one a word over one shoulder, and one over t'other, and if the Lord above knows what's in that gal's mind or what she's up to, he knows more than I do, or she either, else I lose my bet." Biah made this admission with a firmness that might have been a model to theologians or philosophers in general.

There was a point, it appeared, where he was not omniscient.

His universal statistical knowledge had a limit..