"I jest dropped up to do you a favor, and you git mad about it! I don't call that friendly.

If you was to do me a favor I wouldn't git mad." "Go ahead with the favor, then," said Toole, leaning back in his chair and putting his feet on his table.
"Miss Sally," said the Colonel, "she told me all about this feller Rossiter, an' what he said, an' what she said, an' how he come to go to her house for board, an' how he skipped off, an' she showed me the note he left on the pin cushion, an' then she come down to business.
'Colonel,' she says, 'have I a right to take an' keep that box?
Have I a right to open it?
Is it mine by law?
If I open it can he come back an' sue me, or anything ?' "'Can he ?' says I.'That's the question.

Can he ?' "'It's a large box,' says Miss Sally.
"'A large box, hey ?' says I.'Of course if it was a small box, Miss Sally--but it is a large box! How large ?' "'Quite large,' she says.

'About medium large.

Not too large.