“All it is good for is old iron.”
But Josiah sez, “Wall, I’ll bet George Washington made durned good
potash in it. I’ll bet it wuz a good kettle in its day.”
Sez I, “Josiah Allen, cease such talk. I should think we had suffered
enough with the little thing, without lyin’ about it.”
But sez he, firmly, “I believe every word I say, and I don’t say a thing
I can’t prove. That is George Washington’s potash-kettle.”