Not that I'm any better than the sailors an' cow-punchers I travelled with,--I was cow-punchin' for a short time, you know,--but I always liked books, read everything I could lay hands on, an'-- well, I guess I think differently from most of 'em.
"Now, to come to what I'm drivin' at.

I was never inside a house like this.

When I come a week ago, an' saw all this, an' you, an' your mother, an' brothers, an' everything--well, I liked it.

I'd heard about such things an' read about such things in some of the books, an' when I looked around at your house, why, the books come true.

But the thing I'm after is I liked it.