Here is the opportunity for me to show off, and be somebody." And here he begun agin to onbutton his shirt-sleeves and loosen his collar.
But I sez slowly and firmly, and as much like a heavy weight as I could-- "It is three hours to train time.

Set down and act like a human bein' and a Methodist, and tell me what it is you want to do." He glanced up at the clock onto the mantelry-piece, and he see I wuz right about the time.

And he sot down, and sez he-- "That is jest how I want to act, like a Methodist, and a equinomical counsellor." "What for ?" sez I."What do you want to do ?" "Why, to teach 'em," sez he.

"To show myself off.

To counsel 'em." "To counsel 'em about what ?" sez I heavily, bein' bound to come to the bottom of the matter, and the sense on't, if sense there wuz in it.
"Why," sez he, "they are havin' a counsel there to see if there are any new ways for men and Methodists to be equinomical.