"My name is Sprigg, then, sure enough?"
"If it isn't I don't know the man I'm talking to; never did—stranger to me."
"And is your name Ben Logan?"
"If it isn't I don't know the man that's talking to you; never did—stranger to me."
"And these two pretty people here, are they my father and mother, really, now?"
"If they ain't so now, they never were so and never will be so, in this world." Delivered with much solemnity and some stress on "now" and "this."
"And this place, where we all are, is it really grandpap's house, and no mistake?"
"If it isn't you can't prove it by me. It's just where I left just such a house this morning, though it doesn't look much like the same place, either, with you wide awake in it, and old Pow-wow on his hind legs in it, and both so jolly."
"And that little girl there, at the foot of my bed, is her name Bertha?"