I'm tryin' to do it.

I ain't a genius,' I says.
"She interrupted me quick, sort of half laughin' and half cryin'.

'No, Seth,' says she, 'you ain't, that's a fact.' "That made me sort of mad.

'No, I ain't,' I says again; 'and if you ask me, I'd say one in the house was enough, and to spare.' "'I know you don't like Bennie,' she says.
"''Taint that,' says I, which was a lie.

'It ain't that,' I says; 'but somehow I don't seem to fit around here.