He was always thinking.

Queer thoughts they was sometimes." "Whatten kind of thoughts, Dan'l ?" his brother asked.
Boone rubbed his chin as if he found it hard to explain.

"About this country of Ameriky," he replied.

"He reckoned it would soon have to cut loose from England, and him knowing so much about England I used ter believe him.

He allowed there 'ud be bloody battles before it happened, but he held that the country had grown up and couldn't be kept much longer in short clothes.