He said this mornin' that he didn't know but we were eatin' the wrong kind of food.

Lately he's had an idea that mebbe we'd ought to eat more meat; he's thought it was more strengthenin', an' we'd ought to eat things as near like what we wanted to strengthen as could be.

I've made a good deal of bone soup.

But now he says he thinks mebbe he's been mistaken, an' animal food kind of quickens the animal nature in us, an' that we'd better eat green things an' garden sass." "I guess garden sass will strengthen the other kind of sass that Cephas Barnard has got in him full as much as bone soup has," interrupted Hannah Berry, with a sarcastic sniff.
"I dunno but he's right," said Mrs.Barnard.

"Cephas thinks a good deal an' looks into things.