I ain't an educated man.

Maybe--" with his slow smile--"maybe you've guessed as much as that already." "I know that you have talked more intelligently on this war than any one else I have heard since I came to this town," she declared, emphatically.

"Even Captain Hunniwell has never, in my hearing, stated the case against Germany as clearly as you put it just now; and I have heard him talk a good deal." Jed was evidently greatly pleased, but he characteristically tried not to show it.

"Well, now, ma'am," he drawled, "I'm afraid you ain't been to the post office much mail times.

If you'd just drop in there some evenin' and hear Gabe Bearse and Bluey Batcheldor raise hob with the Kaiser you'd understand why the confidence of the Allies is unshaken, as the Herald gave out this mornin'." A little later he said, reflectively: "You know, ma'am, it's an astonishin' thing to me, I can't get over it, my sittin' here in this house, eatin' with you folks and talkin' with you like this." Mrs.Armstrong smiled.