"Tell me, was I singin' ?" "Why, yes, you were.

That is, you were--were--" "Makin' a noise as if I'd swallowed a hymn book and one of the tunes was chokin' me to death?
Um-hm, that's the way I sing.

And I was singin' when you left me, eh?
That means I was thinkin' about somethin'.

I told Babbie once, and it's the truth, that thinkin' was a big job with me and when I did it I had to drop everything else, come up into the wind like a schooner, you know, and just lay to and think.

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