'I solem-ny sw'ar, s'welp me! that I hain't seen no pauper, in no woods, with his name as Benedict.'" Jim paused, and Yates, having completed the sentence, waited.

Then Jim muttered to himself: "With his name _as_ Benedict--with his name _is_ Benedict--with his name _was_ Benedict." Then with a puzzled look, he said: "Yates, can't ye doctor that a little ?" "Whose name was Benedict," suggested Yates.
"Whose name was Benedict," continued Jim.

"Now read it over, as fur as ye've got." "'I solemnly swear that I have seen no pauper in the woods whose name was Benedict.'" "Now look a here, Sam Yates! That sort o' thing won't do.

Stop them tricks.

Ye don't know me, an' ye don't know whar ye're settin' if you think that'll go down." "Why, what's the matter ?" "I telled ye that Benedict was no pauper, an' ye say that ye've seen no pauper whose name was Benedict.