The young man said good night and opened the door.
"I'll go with you," said Kelso.
He went with Mr.Biggs to the tavern and got his daughter and returned home with her.
Mrs.Kelso chided her husband for being hard on Mr.Biggs.
"He has had his lesson, perhaps he will turn over a new leaf," she said.
"I fear there isn't a new leaf in his book," said Kelso.

"They're all dirty." He told his wife what Abe had said in the store.
"The wisdom of the common folk is in that beardless young giant," he said.

"It is the wisdom of many generations gathered in the hard school of bitter experience.

I wonder where it is going to lead him." As Eliphalet Biggs was going down the south road next morning he met Bim on her pony near the schoolhouse, returning from the field with her cow.
They stopped.
"I'm coming back, little girl," he said.
"What for ?" she asked.
"To tell you a secret and ask you a question.

Nobody but you has the right to say I can not.