You didn't get that from anything I said.

Where did you get it ?' "I leaned back on my box seat.
"'Mr.Williams,' says I, 'I cal'late I'll tell you a little story, if you want to hear it.

'Tain't much of a yarn, as yarns go, but maybe it'll interest you.

The start of it goes back to consider'ble many year ago, when I was poorer'n I be now, and a mighty sight younger.

At that time me and another feller, a partner of mine, had a fish weir out in the bay here.