You ain't got no idea what a handicap a feller's under what ain't got no eddication." Whitey thought that what Bill had just said had given him a pretty good idea of the handicap, but he was wise enough to say nothing.

Bill sat down and began to roll a cigarette.
"O' course, they's a lot of things in life that you can't learn outa books," Bill said.

"But th' feller with th' book-learnin' generally has th' upper hand.

There's one thing books never rightly teached no boy, an' that's lookin' ahead.

I've often wondered why they didn't pay more 'tention t' that, but mostly a boy has t' learn it for himself.