over, and whenever the train'd stop, I'd wake up with a start—
Now I know you boys are impatient to get on with the game and don't want to hear anything about California. I know how it is. Why sometimes in the family circle, when we have these little heart-to-heart talks that are so valuable in molding the characters of children—for, as the Good Book says, "The tree is inclined as the twig is bent"—and while I may tell Robby and Delmerine, my children, that it's only things of the culture and mind that matter, yet all the time I'm lecturing 'em, myself maybe I'd like to make a duck and get off to a poker game! So I simply despise a fellow that interrupts a game with a lot of gabble. But I did want to speak about California just for a second,
And what a state it is! What a state!
Now I'm mighty good and proud of my own state, Winnemac. It's a matter of proven facts and statistics that next to Michigan, Illinois, Ohio,
