"I laid him out in a second with a stick, and Jim grabbed pap’s whisky-jug and begun to pour it down. He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around"
"Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn’t borrow them any more—then he reckoned it wouldn’t be no harm to borrow the others. So we talked it over all one night, drifting "
"I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it. I say to myself, if a body can get anything they prey for, why don't Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can't the get back her silver snuff-box that was stole? Why can't Miss Watson fat up? No, says I to myself, t"
"The sky looks ever so deep when you lad down on your back in the moonshine; I never knew it before. And how far a body can hear on water such nights! I heard people taking at the ferry-landing. I heard waht they said ,evert word of it."