He stirred some salt into the flour very carefully, so not a dust fell over the brim of the bowl.
"Horses don't eat meat, neither, an' they don't chew their cuds," Mrs.Barnard argued further.

She had never in her life argued with Cephas; but sorrel pies, after the night before, made her wildly reckless.
Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table.

"Horses are the exception," he returned, with dignified asperity.

"There always are exceptions.

What I was comin' at was--I'd been kind of wrong in my reasonin'.