Uncle Ethan had a theory that a man's character could be told by the way he sat in a wagon seat. \"A mean man sets right plumb in the middle o' the seat, as much as to say, 'Walk, gol darn yeh, who cares?' But a man that sets in one corner o' the seat, much as to say, 'Jump in-cheaper t' ride 'n to walk, ' you can jest tie to.\" Uncle Ripley was prejudiced in favor of the stranger, therefore, before he came opposite the potato patch, where the old man was \"bugging his vines.\""15.95 | Prairie Folks, Paperback | Indigo Chapters