'Would you go away and leave me ?' "'You've got Brother Bennie,' says I.'He's a genius; I ain't nothin' but a man.' "She laughed, pretty scornful.

'Are you sartin you're that ?' she wanted to know.
"'Not since I been livin' here, I ain't,' I says.

And that ended that try of makin' up.
"And from then on it got worse and worse.

There wan't much comfort at home where the inventor was, so I took to stayin' out nights.

Went down to the store and hung around, listenin' to fools' gabble, and wishin' I was dead.