It is a great thing to be where the register of your mind is not overburdened by the flow of facts.

Abe's candidacy is the only thing that has happened here since Samson's raising, except the arrival and departure of Eliphalet Biggs.

Our memories are not weakened by overwork.

They have time for big undertakings--like Burns and Shakespeare and Blackstone." "I've noticed that facts get kind o' slippery when they come in a bunch, as they did on our journey," said Samson.

"Seems so they wore each other smooth and got hard to hold." "Ransom Prigg used to say it was easy enough to ketch eels, but it was powerful hard to hold 'em," Abe remarked.