You're a puzzle to me, Jed.

What are you, anyway--the dum fool or King Solomon ?" Jed looked meditatively over his spectacles.

The slow smile twitched the corners of his lips.
"Well, Sam," he drawled, "if you put it to vote at town meetin' I cal'late the majority'd be all one way.

But, I don't know"-- ; he paused, and then added, "I don't know, Sam, but it's just as well as 'tis.

A King Solomon down here in Orham would be an awful lonesome cuss.".