"No, Samantha, I shan't git any man to be bossin' me round. I shall git some humble man that knows enough to drive a nail, to carry out my views and be guided by me. There is so much jealousy in every walk of life now, that when a man that shows originality and genius comes forth from the masses, there is immegiately a desire to keep him back and hide his talents." Sez he, "I'm afraid of this sperit so I am goin' to git a man that can do what I tell him and ask no questions; in these conditions," sez he, "I can swing right out and do justice to myself." "Then you do have some few fears about your plans yourself?" Sez he, "Let me once git into a place where my mind can work, I'll show what I can do, let me once git away from meddlin' and clack." But that night of his own accord (I'd had a uncommon good supper) he acted real affectionate and more confidentialer than he had for weeks, an' he sez, "There is one thing, Samantha, I'm bound to have, and that is a mullin' winder." "A what?" sez I. "A mullin winder; what is that?" "Why a winder made out of mullins," sez he hautily. Sez I, "How do you make it? Mullin leaves are thick and the stalks tougher than fury, how do you make winders out of 'em?" "That," sez he proudly, "is the work of a architect to take stalks of the humble mullin and transfer it into a tall and stately winder." Sez I, "I don't believe it can be done. How would you go to work to do it?" Sez he, "It would be fur from me, Samantha, to muddle up a woman's brains any more than they be muddled naturally, tryin' to inform her how this is done. I only say there will be a mullin' winder in the house." Sez I, "Hain't you goin' to have a bay winder?" "That depends on whether there will be room for the bay. But as to the ventilation, on that pint my plans are made. I believe a house should be ventilated to the bottom instead of the top. Air goes up instead of down, a house should be ventilated from the mop boards, I think some of havin' em open like a trap door to let the air through. Sime Bentley sez have a row of holes bored right through the sides of the house to let in the air, and when you didn't want to use 'em plug 'em up, when you want a little air take out one stopple, when you want a good deal take out a hull row of plugs. That's a good idee," sez Josiah, "but I convinced him that it lacked one important thing, the air didn't come up from the bottom as I consider it necessary for health and perfect ventilation." Sez I dryly, "You might have the holes bored through into the suller!" My tone wuz as irony as a iron tea-kettle, but he didn't perceive it.