"I ask your pardon, Dad; but you don't know, not being raised in these woods like me.
Old man Lewis hadn't done nothing neither, and he explained, too; only he never got through explainin'.

They ain't got no reason.
They're drunk.

You've never seen Wash Gibbs drunk, and to-night he's got his whole gang with him.

I don't know why he's comin' after you, but, from what you told me 'bout his stoppin' here that evenin', and what I've heard lately, I can guess.

I know what he'll do when he gets here, if we don't stop him.