'An' you hears me! I never sees sech bettin' in my life.' "Nacherally we-all feels refreshed with these experiences of Colonel Sterett's, for as Enright observes, it's by virchoo of sech casooal chunks of information that a party rounds out a eddication.
"'It ain't what a gent learns in schools,' says Enright, 'that broadens him an' stiffens his mental grip; it's knowledge like this yere moon story from trustworthy sources that augments him an' fills him full.
Go on, Colonel, an' onload another marvel or two.

You-all must shore have witnessed a heap!' "'Them few sparse facts touchin' the moon,' returns Colonel Sterett, 'cannot be deemed wonders in any proper sense.

They're merely interestin' details which any gent gets onto who brings science to his aid.

But usin' the word "wonders," I does once blunder upon a mir'cle which still waits to be explained.

That's a shore-enough marvel! An' to this day, all I can state is that I sees it with these yere eyes.' "'Let her roll!' says Texas Thompson.