*net calculated to impress the beholder almost with awe,

it wuz so sort o' high headed and literary lookin'. Josiah didn't want me to git it, but I knew it would give me a high learnt look, and, when they asked me if I lived in Boston, I felt I had made a good choice.

Well, we got home perfectly beat out, and my pardner fearfully cross, though, as I wuz as good as my word and got him a good but hasty lunch, his crossness moderated and he went to bed in considerable good sperits, and we slep' late the next day and no serious bad results follered.