Honest men are skarse, and are a going tew be skarser.
Thare grate scarsity iz what makes them valuable.
If every boddy waz honest, the supply would ruin the demand.
Honesty iz like money, a man haz tew work hard tew git it, and then work
harder tew keep it.
Adam waz the fust honest man we hav enny ackount ov, and hiz honesty
want ov mutch ackount.
You couldn't put yure finger on Adam, for in the garden ov Eden, when he
waz wanted, he couldn't be found.
Old deakon Skinner, ov lower Pordunk village, waz an honest man, he
wouldn't hunt for hen's eggs on sunday, but he waz an awful cluss man,
he set a hen once, on three eggs, just tew save eggs.