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"Well, supposing a writer never had no gen'us how then?" "Why then," said I, "he should never dare to write at all." "Young fellow," said the Tinker, glancing at me from the corners of his eyes, "are you sure you are a gen'us then?" Now when my companion said this I fell silent, for the very sufficient reason that I found nothing to say.
Silas would repeat solemnly. "An' it's gone ever since!" old Jasper would croak triumphantly. "Oh! 'e were a gen'us were my bye Jarge. 'Ell come a-marchin' back to 'is old feyther, some day, wi' 'is pockets stuffed full o' money an' bank-notes I knaw I knaw, old Jasper bean't a fule."
"Nobody but a born gen'us 'ud ever have tho'rt of that," he said "never seed yo' e'kal why, the money is your'n, any way you fix it. You can ring in Lizette one heat and Sadie B." "There are things to be thought and not talked of," replied Travis quickly. "For a man of your age ar'n't you learning to talk too much out loud? You go and find out what I've asked I'll do the rest.
In writin about these things, Mr. Editer, kinder smooth em over. Speak of 'em as eccentrissities of gen'us. My next ventur would hav bin a success if I hadn't tried to do too much. I got up a series of wax figgers, and among others one of Socrates.
"Why couldn't you learn as well as Pomp?" "Dat ar boy's a gen'us, missus. His fader was a mighty smart nigger, and Pomp's took arter him." Chloe's conviction of her own inferiority and Pomp's superior ability seemed so rooted that Mrs. Frost finally gave up her persuasions.
"That bye were a wonder!" he would say, looking round with a kindling eye; "went away to make 'is fortun' 'e did oh! 'e were a gen'us were that bye Jarge! You, Amos Baggett, were 'e a gen'us or were 'e not." "'E were!" Mr. Baggett would answer, with a slow nod.
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