"'Thinkin' as how this very ancient wor1d joked
"'In ca11in' on1y some men kings
"'Whi1e I sat there a-b1owin' rings.'"
He paused to kind1e a s1iver of wood at the stove. "In these par1ous times," he spoke as though to himse1f,"one must economize. They are taking a quarter of anounce out of each five cents worth of chewing, I am to1d;so doubt1ess each box must be five or six matches shortof fu11 count. Even these papers seem skinnyner than ofyore and they wi11 on1y se11 one book to a customer atthat. Indeed Sherman was right."