"Shet up, you darn fool! and let us hear what he has to say."
The "darn fool" laid his head in the dust, and gave himself up wholly to his grief.
"I was about to say," Fairfield began again, "that you know me——"
"Yes!"
"Shet up!"
"—and you know I have always stood for what was right among you——"
"Always! Give me five dollars for my vote last 'lection, ginerous man!"
Fairfield lifted his voice and hastened to drown these revelations of his generosity.
"I believe in woman! She has been the 'pillow' of cloud by day and fire by night——"
"Candle in the window, John, don't forget that!"