I'll make her the Countess of Lambeth--she'll shore do fo' the peerage any day!' That was yo' mommy, sneezic's!" Mr.Cavendish paused to address himself to the baby whom Connie had relinquished to him.
"You bet I made time the rest of the way.

I says, 'She's sixteen if she's a day, and all looks!' I broke into old man Rhett's clearin' on a keen run.

He was a settin' afo' his do' smokin' his pipe and he glanced me over kind of weary-like and says, 'Howdy!' It wa'n't much of a greetin' the way he said it either; but I figured it was some better than bein' chased off the place.

So I stepped indo's, stood my rifle in a corner and hung up my cap.

He was watchin' me and presently he drawled out, 'Make yo'self perfectly at home, stranger.' "I says, 'Squire'-- he wa'n't a squire, but they called him that--I says, 'Squire, my name's Cavendish.