mpressively, "apples isn't, and potatoes isn't, and peas isn't, and
chickens isn't. Nothing to eat is grafts. If it is to eat it is not
grafts. So says Attorney Toole. Things to eat is no more grafts
as lung-tester is fire-extingables. So says Toole. So nobody won't
prosecute me. I stick me to the mayor business yet a while. Klops on the
head is nothings much; all big men gets them. So says Attorney Toole."

Skinner was locking his shop when Eliph' passed, and the stopped Eliph'
too.

"Works fine," he said. "I tried a tomato canful on a bonfire in the back
yard, and it put it out like a wink. That's a great book; I'm glad you
spoke about it. I wish you'd told me about it sooner."

Miss Sally was not on the porch when Eliph' arrived, for she was still
in the kitchen at the supper dishes, but Mrs. Smith and Susan were
there, and they greeted him eagerly. The little man smiled as he walked
up to them, and waved his hand in the air.

"You fixed it?" cried Mrs. Smith. "It is all right now?"

"Fixed from A to Z," said Eliph', as he took a seat on the porch step.
"All right from the allegorical frontispiece in three colors to the back
page. Jarby's wins, and error don't. Miss Sally in?"

He heard the click of the dishes as Miss Sally laid them one by one on
the kitchen table, so he knew well she was in.

"It might relieve her mind if I told her," he suggested, and Mrs. Smith
smiled and said it might.

"Go right in," she said, and Eliph' did.

He went into the hall and coughed gently behind his hand, and Miss Sally
looked up. She wiped her hands hastily on her blue gingham apron, and
came into the hall.

"Jarby's fixed it," he said, and rapidly related what he had done, with
illustrations in the way of quotations from the titles and sub-titles of
Jarby's. "When you have a moment to spare," he added, "I would like to
speak to you. I want to tell you something about Jarby's Encyclopedia of
Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, a copy of which
I see lying on your parlor table, forming an adornment to the home both
useful and helpful."

"Well, I don't want no books," said Miss Sally, "I've got one copy, and
that ought to be enough to adorn any home. And I've got to get these
dishes washed sometime. I've let the fire go out, and the water will be
cold. If there's anything important you want to say about that book, you
can go out and wait till I get the dishes done."

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