"Children are such self-centred little beasts!" she told J.G.
rue-fully.

"I almost wish he was a girl." "Ay?
If he was a girl he wouldn't git lost, maybe, but some feller'd take him away from yuh just the same.

The Kid's all right.

He's just the kind you expect him to be and want him to be.

You're tickled to death because he's like he is.