"And I can't have any such reports go out about my house.

If it gits the reputation of being ha'nted, then good-by business.

I won't have a guest set foot in the doorway all summer.

I know these people who claim not to be superstitious.

They ain't superstitious so long as other people sees things, but they git confoundedly so soon's they begin to see things themselves." "You have seen things at sea that puzzled you ?" Merry asked, knowing that he was making a center shot.
"Who said that I'd ever been to sea?
And s'pose I have?
I ain't worried people to death about it and broke up another man's business.