Jim He broke his knife off, and the Dutchman soaked him with a beer mallet.

'But Mandy,' says Jim to me, jest before he shet his eyes, 'I die content.

That there fellow was the sweetest cuttin' man I ever did cut in all my life--he was jest like a ripe pumpkin.' Say, there was a man for you, was Jim--you look some like him." She dipped snuff again vigorously.
"You compliment me very much, Mrs.McGovern," I said.
"Say," she responded, "I got two thousand head o' hawgs runnin' around in the timber down there in Pike." At the moment I did not see the veiled tenderness of this speech, but thought of nothing better than to tell her that I was going no further up the river than Fort Leavenworth.
"Um-hum!" she said.

"Say, mister, mebbe that's yore wife back there in the kebbin in the middle of the boat ?" "No, indeed.

In fact I did not know there was any other lady on the boat besides yourself.