Do you say it to everybody?
What on earth do you mean by it?
Who would tell me anything?
And what would they tell ?" Solomon pulled his whiskers.

"Nothin', I guess," he said, after a moment.

"Only there's so much fool talk runnin' loose I didn't know but you might have heard I was--was dead, or somethin'.

I ain't." "I can see that, I hope.

And if you was I shouldn't be traipsin' ten miles just to look at your remains.