These long rides in the open are making a new man of me.

Another year in the city would have used me up." "Mr.Traylor, you stand up as proud and firm as a big pine," Kelso remarked.

"I believe you're a Yankee." "So do I," said Samson.

"If you took all the Yankee out o' me I'd have an empty skin." Then Abe began to show the stranger his peculiar art in these words: "Stephen Nuckles used to say: 'God's grace embraces the isles o' the sea an' the uttermost parts o' the earth.

It takes in the Esquimaux an' the Hottentots.