But they can't be expected to uphold no such doin's as these, let alone admirin' of 'em." Sez Josiah, "It beats all how wimmen will run on if a man gits drunk.
Why don't you pitch into him, instead of blamin' the Goverment ?" And I sez, "If you go to work to move a tree you don't pull on the top branches.

Of course they are more showy and easy to git holt of.

But you have to dig the roots out if you want to move the tree." Josiah looked real indifferent.

He hain't like me in lots of things; he is more for dabblin' on the surface than divin' down under the water for first causes, and he spoke up the minute I had finished my last words, and sez he-- "Krit and Thomas Jefferson are a-comin' here to dinner; they are goin' up to Zoar on business, and are a-goin' to stop as they come back.

And I should think it wuz about time you got sunthin' started." And I sez, "The boys a-comin' here to dinner! Why'e--why didn't you tell me so ?" And I got right up and went to makin' a lemon puddin'..