“Yes, sir, a jay is everything that a man is” Mark Twain

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The California miner Jim Baker begins his famous yarn about the blue jays who try to fill an empty cabin with acorns through a knot-hole.

Citation: "Yes, sir, a jay is everything that a man is" — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #119). (id a-tramp-abroad-q4)

Portrait: A Tramp Abroad (1880), illustration by True Williams, True Williams, Public domain.

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Quotation from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain