"How do you know this, Julie ?" she asked, turning to the mountain girl.
"Paw! Don't know how Paw knowed 'bout it.

Paw knows nigh everything 'bout what's doin' up here.

Reckon you-all'll have er right smart time gittin' to the loot'nant's property ever, 'cause that's where Bat an' his bunch make their hangout." "Do they live there ?" asked Hippy.
"Reckon they do now an' ag'in." "They carry on their business there?
Is that what you mean, Julie ?" questioned Elfreda.
"Don't know nothin' 'bout that." The girls exchanged significant glances.

True to her type, Julie would not even expose an enemy.

The Spurgeons and the Thompsons were feudists, and had time and again made war on each other for several generations, and it was their policy not to talk, but to let their rifles talk for them.
"What you-all goin' t' do ?" "We are going on, of course," announced Lieutenant Wingate.
"You-all shore'll git lammed if ye do," warned Julie.
"No we won't, 'cause I'll con-centrate.