"You an' me, Paul, wuz intended to be eddicated men.

Ez fur Jim Hart here, he's that dull he'd take more pride in cookin' in a stone furnace than in writin' the finest book in the world." "When I cook I git's somethin' that I kin see," said Jim Hart.

"I never read but one book in my life, an' I didn't find it very sustainin'.

I guess if you wuz starvin' to death here in the wilderness, you'd ruther hev a hot hoe cake than all the books in the world." "'Tain't worth while, Paul, to talk to Jim Hart," said Shif'less Sol sadly.

"He ain't got no soul above a hoe cake.