Thomas he wouldn't never have a new thing in the house; he was terrible set and notional about it and he was terrible tight with his money.

I don't care if I do say it; everybody knows it; an' I don't see why it's any worse to say things that's true about the dead than the livin'.

With some folks it's all 'Oh, don't say nothin'; he's dead.

Cover it all up; he's buried an' bury it too, an' set all the roses an' pinks a-growin' over it.' I tell you sometimes nettles will sprout, an' when they do, it don't make it any better to call 'em pinks.

Thomas Maxwell was terrible tight.