The only way I can decide 'em is to set down and open court, put 'em on trial, as you might say." "What do you mean ?" "Why, I call in witnesses for both sides, seems so.

Here's the reasons why I ought to tell; here's the reasons why I shouldn't.
I--" "Tell?
Ought to TELL?
What makes you say that?
What have YOU got to tell ?" He was glaring at the windmill maker with frightened eyes.

Jed knew as well as if it had been painted on the shop wall before him the question in the boy's mind, the momentous decision he was trying to make.

And he pitied him from the bottom of his heart.
"Tell ?" he repeated.

"Did I say tell?
Well, if I did 'twas just a--er--figger of speech, as the book fellers talk about.