I do believe the watermelons and the pumpkins talk politics." Rivers smiled.

"I shall reply to you, of course.

It will not be a full answer.

I want to say that this present trouble is not a quarrel born within the memory of any living man.

The colonial life began with colonial differences and aversions due to religion--Puritan, Quaker and Church of England, intercolonial tariffs and what not.