"I ain't hep to this line of chatter—it's by me. But I dopes it out he's sore at automobiles,
"'What's wrong with 'em?' I says to him.
"'Ah don't feel qualified to answer yoh question, suh,' he says. 'Ah believe the blind pursuit and worship of riches is almost entirely responsible. It has bred a shallowness and superficiality in and towahds the finah things of life. But the historian will answer yoh question at a later day. He can bring a calmness to the task which is impossible to one surrounded and bewildered by it all.'
"I ain't any wiser'n I was, but I don't say nothin'. The old man acts like he's studyin' about somethin'.
"'Who owns the hawss that just trialed three-quahtahs in fohteen?' he says, after while.
"'Jim Sigsbee up at Cynthiana,' I says.
"'Is Mr. Sigsbee awaheh of the—method you pursue with regahd to falsely stimulating his hawss?' says ole man Sanford.
"'Well, I guess yes!' I says. 'Jim won't bet a dollar on him unless he's got the hop in him.'
"'Ah shall write to him,' says ole man Sanford, 'n' beats it down the track toward the gates.
"I don't see him fur over a week. I figger he's sore at me fur dopin' hosses. It's a funny thing but, I'm a son-of-a-gun if I don't miss the ole duck. From the way they talk I see the boys kind-a miss him, too.