When he does it to me I keep on spinnin' him till we agree, that's all." Phillips made no comment on this illuminating statement and there was another interval of silence, broken only by the hum and rasp of the turning lathe.

Then he spoke again.
"Jed," he said, "seriously now, when a big question comes up to you, and you've got to answer it one way or the other, how do you settle with yourself which way to answer ?" Jed sighed.

"That's easy, Charlie," he declared.

"There don't any big questions ever come up to me.

I ain't the kind of feller the big things come to." Charles grunted, impatiently.