A bunch of year ago, these old Harper womens were sitting around by the fire just a quilting away. They was taking pieces of old shirts and things and sewing them together to make a bed quilt for one of them's bed, doncha know? They got to talking about the great inventors and one old lady said she thought Eli Whitney were a great man 'cause of that cotton gin he come up with. She said without that they might not had no cloth to use to make their quilts with. The next old lady claimed Thomas A. Edison were the greatest inventor 'cause without the electrical light bulb they would be having to quilt by the light of the fire alone. The third old woman thought for a minute and emptied a little brown stuff from the can in her lap into that space between her lower lip and her lower teeth. She remarked, "I don't care what y'all say, that Levi Garrett warn't nobody's fool.
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