You know all them outlandish countries like you've been a-tellin' us about, and I don't know anything, but I want to know, and I'm a-goin' with you.

Leastways, I'm a-goin', and I'm a-goin' with you if you'll let me." Keith's reply was anything but reassuring.

He gave good reasons against Dave's carrying out his plan; but his tone was kind, and the youngster took it for encouragement.
"I ain't much account, I know," he pleaded.

"I ain't any account in the _worl'_," he corrected himself, so that there could be no mistake about the matter.

"They say at home I used to be some account--some little account--before I took to books--before I _sorter_ took to books," he corrected again shamefacedly; "but since then I ain't been no manner of account.