"If you sell it, that'd prove it was yours almost as good as givin' it away.

What'll you take for it ?" "I don't want to sell it," said Roddy sulkily.
"Yay! Yay! YAY!" shouted the taunting Sam Williams, whose every word and sound had now become almost unbearable to Master Bitts.

Sam was usually so good-natured that the only explanation of his conduct must lie in the fact that Roddy constitutionally got on his nerves.

"He KNOWS he can't prove it! He's a goner, and now we can begin callin' him anything we can think of! I choose to call him one first, Penrod.

Roddy, you're a--" "Wait!" shouted Penrod, for he really believed Roddy's claims to be both moral and legal.