Learnin' always takes a mighty strong hold on me.
Ef I'd had the chance, I might be a purfessor, or mebbe I'd be writin' poetry.

I ain't told you about it, but when I wuz a young boy, afore I moved with the settlers, I wuz up in these parts an' I learned to talk Iroquois a heap.

I never thought it would be the use to me it hez been now.

Ain't it funny that sometimes when you put a thing away an' it gits all covered with rust and mold, the time comes when that same forgot little thing is the most vallyble article in the world to you." "Weren't you scared, Sol," persisted Paul, "to face a man like Brant, an' pass yourself off as an Onondaga ?" "No, I wuzn't," replied the shiftless one thoughtfully, "I've been wuss scared over little things.

I guess that when your life depends on jest a motion o' your hand or the turnin' o' a word, Natur' somehow comes to your help an' holds you up.