"Seems like--seems like toward night as if a body got kind o' lonesome for a woman person--like her." Billy indicated Margaret and then closed his eyes so tight his small face wrinkled.
Soon he was up again.

"Wisht I had Snap," he said.

"Oh, I ist wisht I had Snap!" "I thought you laid a board on Snap and jumped on it," said Wesley.
"We did!" cried Billy--"oh, you ought to heard him squeal!" Billy laughed loudly, then his face clouded.
"But I want Snap to lay beside me so bad now--that if he was here I'd give him a piece of my chicken, 'for, I ate any.

Do you like dogs ?" "Yes, I do," said Wesley.
Billy was up instantly.

"Would you like Snap ?" "I am sure I would," said Wesley.
"Would she ?" Billy indicated Margaret.