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"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.
They had tracked Sterzer to the Old Home House, and had put their new hand on the job of gettin' that agreement. Fust he'd tried to shine up to Grace, but the shine her part of it had wore off. Then he decided to steal it; and he done it, just how nobody knows. Snow, the detective, says he cal'lates Henry, the servant, is wiser'n most folks thinks, fur's that's concerned.
But now they've got this here reward business out everywhere in the papers an' the movies, she ain't safe nowhere. An' I want somebody that's wiser'n me to take a holt an' do somethin'. I can't pay much, but I'll pay a little every month as long's I live ef it takes that long to pay yer bill, an' I have a notion she may have some money herself, though she didn't say nothin' about it.
"You shouldn't say such things!" Suddenly a light came into his eyes. "I doan't envy 'em anyway. Think what it must be never to have no mother to love 'e! They 'm poor, motherless twoads, for all their gold crowns an' purple wings." "Will! whatever will 'e say next? Best go to Clem. An' forget what I spoke 'bout Martin Grimbal an' work. You was wiser'n me in that." "I s'pose so.
"I heard old Judge Champney talk on these things a good many times in his lifetime, an' he was wise, wiser'n any man here." He allowed himself this one thrust at Mr. Wiggins and the Colonel. "He used to say: 'Tavy, it's all in the natural course of things, and it's got to strike us here sometime; not in my time, but in my boy's.
You won't easily reco'nize Broken Feather by his body coverin'. You'll be a whole lot wiser'n I think you, if you kin single him out in that crowd. Hullo! Now for it!" Nick pressed his trigger. The Redskins were charging. "Let go, boys!" he cried, as a shower of arrows and ill-aimed bullets peppered against the off sides of the wagons and kicked up spurts of dust on the trail.
"Ess, an' he'm mouldin' you to his awn vain pride an' wrong ways o' thinking. If you could lead un right, 't would be a better wife's paart." "He'm wiser'n me, an' stronger. Ban't my place to think against him. Us'll go our ways, childern tu, an' turn our backs 'pon this desert. I hate the plaace now, same as Will." Chris here interrupted Phoebe and called her from the other room.
An' theer's another marvelous thing as washin' in thicky waters done: it kep' the fairies off the bad fairies, I mean. 'Cause theer'm gude an' bad piskeys, same as gude an' bad men folks." "You believe in fairies, Joan?" She looked at him shyly, but he had apparently asked for information and was not in the least amused. "I dunnaw. P'raps. Iss, I do, then! Many wiser'n me do b'lieve in 'em.
He seated himself at the table with a gesture which seemed to wave into some remote background the temptation of sausages and buckwheat cakes. "No trouble for me. Just set on the nuts and apples, same as our ancestors ate before they got wiser'n their Creator and learned to cook their victuals. We're the only animals that ain't satisfied with raw food.
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