Them that did stay, stayed on account of the football.

We was edgin' up toward the end of the series, and our team and the Wapatomac crowd was neck and neck.

It looked as if the final game between them and us, over on their grounds, would settle who'd have the soup tureen.
"Pa Robinson and Parker had been quite interested in Willie when he fust come.

They thought he might play with the eleven, you see.

But he wouldn't.