"You know why you never reported him, doggone yuh! You couldn't give him up no easier than I could.

And I'll tell the world to its face that if anybody gets this kid now they've pretty near got to fight for him.

It ain't right, and it ain't honest.

It's stealing to keep him, and I never stole a brass tack in my life before.

But he's mine as long as I live and can hang on to him.