Honest to grandma, Andy makes me feel kinda faint.

Only time he did have a chanc't, he let them--" It occurred to Big Medicine at that point that perhaps his remarks might be construed by the object of them as being offensively personal.

He turned his head and grinned good-naturedly in Andy's direction, and refrained from finishing what he was going to say.

"I sure do like them wind-flowers scattered all over the ground," he observed with such deliberate and ostentatious irrelevance that the Happy Family laughed, even to Andy Green, who had at first been inclined toward anger.
"Everything," declared Andy in the tone of a paid instructor, "has its proper time and place, boys; I've told you that before.

For instance, I wouldn't try to kill a skunk by talking it to death; and I wouldn't be hopeful of putting the run on this Dunk person by telling him ghost stories.