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? ? ? ? "Geewhillikins," I says, "but what does the rest of it mean?"

? ? ? ? "We ain't got no time to bother over that," he says, "we got to dig in like all git-out."

? ? ? ? "Well, anyway," I says, "what's some of it? What's a fess?"

? ? ? ? "A fess- a fess is- you don't need to know what a fess is. I'll show him how to make it when he gets to it."

? ? ? ? "Shucks, Tom," I says, "I think you might tell a person. What's a bar sinister?"

? ? ? ? "Oh, I don't know. But he's got to have it. All the nobility does."

? ? ? ? That was just his way. If it didn't suit him to explain a thing to you, he wouldn't do it. You might pump at him a week, it wouldn't make no difference.

? ? ? ? He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription- said Jim got to have one, like they all done. He made up a lot, and wrote them out on a paper, and read them off, so:

1. Here a captive heart busted.
   
   
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