"You sing EVER so much.

I heard you singing this morning." Jed nodded.

"Ye-es," he drawled, "but I was alone then and I'm liable to take chances with my own health.

Bluey Batcheldor was in the shop last week, though, when I was tunin' up and it disagreed with HIM." "I don't believe it, Uncle Jed," with righteous indignation.

"How do you know it did ?" "'Cause he said so.