Seemed like he couldn't speak fer a while, but fin'ly he says, 'Where you ben all day ?' "'Down t' the village,' I says.
"'What you ben up to down there ?' he says.
"'Went to the cirkis,' I says, thinkin' I might 's well make a clean breast on't.
"'Where 'd you git the money ?' he says.
"'Mr.Cullom took me,' I says.
"'You lie,' he says.

'You stole the money somewheres, an' I'll trounce it out of ye, if I kill ye,' he says.
"Wa'al," said David, twisting his shoulders in recollection, "I won't harrer up your feelin's.

'S I told you, he done his best.

I was willin' to quit long 'fore he was.

Fact was, he overdone it a little, an' he had to throw water in my face 'fore he got through; an' he done that as thorough as the other thing.