But for the fact that they were becoming exceedingly painful he would have decided to ignore them, for in his wearied condition it was an effort to do anything.
"I knows how I'll fix un," he said at length.

"I'll cut pieces from the bottom o' my shirt to bind un up with.

They'll keep un from gettin' rubbed whatever, and when I gets back to camp Doctor Joe'll fix un up right." This he proceeded to do at once with the aid of his jack-knife, and presently had two serviceable bandages ready to apply.
"Doctor Joe were sayin' how to keep the air away from burns by usin' oil or molasses or flour or somethin'," he hesitated.

"And he were sayin' to keep sores from gettin' dirt into un whatever.

He says the sores'll be gettin' inflicted or infested or somethin'-- I'm not rememberin' just what 'twere, but somethin' bad whatever--if they gets dirt into un.