"Oh, it's nothin'," he said.

"I was just startin' out to buy a girl friend o' mine a rhinestone buckle I lost to her on a bet, this afternoon, and Alice came along with that big Russell fish; and I thought she looked sore.

She expects me to like the kind she likes, and I don't like 'em.

I thought she'd prob'ly got you all stirred up about it." "No, no," his father said, peevishly.

"I don't know anything about it, and I don't care to know anything about it.