He didn't like to be talked to when he felt badly.

At such times he used to say that he had the brain colic.

He told me that notes had an effect on the brain like that of green apples on the stomach.
One autumn day in Canton Uncle Peabody traded three sheep and twenty bushels of wheat for a cook stove and brought it home in the big wagon.
Rodney Barnes came with him to help set up the stove.

He was a big giant of a man with the longest nose in the township.

I had often wondered how any one would solve the problem of kissing Mr.Barnes in the immediate region of his nose, the same being in the nature of a defense.
I remember that I regarded it with a kind of awe because I had been forbidden to speak of it.