"It ain't right nor kind for you to talk so to him, and him a stranger and so far from his people.

How would you like to be treated so ?" "That's always your way, Maim--always sailing in to help somebody before they're hurt.

I hain't done nothing to him.

He's told some stretchers, I reckon, and I said I wouldn't swallow it all; and that's every bit and grain I DID say.

I reckon he can stand a little thing like that, can't he ?" "I don't care whether 'twas little or whether 'twas big; he's here in our house and a stranger, and it wasn't good of you to say it.