She kept her eyes fixed upon Cephas.

"What has he done ?" she repeated.
"I guess he didn't do much of anything," Mrs.Barnard murmured, feebly; but Deborah did not seem to hear her.
Cephas opened his mouth as if perforce.

"Well," he said, slowly, "we got to talkin'-- " "Talkin' about what ?" "About the 'lection.

I think, accordin' to my reasonin', that what we eat had a good deal to do with it." "What ?" "I think if you'd kept your family on less meat, and given 'em more garden-stuff to eat Barney wouldn't have been so up an' comin'.

It's what he's eat that's made him what he is." Deborah stared at Cephas in stern amazement.